إِذا جِئتُ قالوا قَد أَتى وَتَهامَسوا

كَأَن لَم يَجِد فيما مَضى أَحَدٌ وَجدي

When I come, they say he has arrived and whisper

As though before me none felt passion, none.

فَعُروَةُ سَنَّ الحُبَّ قَبليَ إِذ شَقى

بِعفَراءَ والنَهديُّ ماتَ عَلى هِندِ

Yet ʿUrwa suffered love's agony before me

For ʿAfra, and an-Nahdi died for Hind.