لَحظات تَرمي الحَشا بِنبال

قاتِلات وَلات حين قِتال

Moments that throw arrows at my heart

Deadly when in battle

وَخُدود كَالوَرد لَوناً وَطيباً

صَقَلتها صِبا إِلَيها وَالجَمال

And cheeks like roses in color and fragrance

Youth has polished them, along with beauty

وَثَنايا كَاللؤلؤِ الرَطب تَزري

حسن نَظم لَها بِعَقد اللآلي

And folds like moist pearls arranged

In a necklace of sublime gems

وَقِوام يَحكي العَوالي وَلَكن

فَعلَهُ في القُلوب فعل العَوالي

A figure that tells of highlands, but

Its effect on hearts is like highlands

مِن نَصيري عَلى الحَبيب المُفَدى

بِنُفوس مِنا كِرام غَوالي

My ally for the sake of the beloved ransomed

With our noble souls

قَمر يُخجل الشُموس ضِياءً

وَقَضيب يَسقى بِماءِ الدَلال

A moon that outshines suns in brilliance

And a twig that irrigates with the water of affection

وَغَزال للمسك في الفَم مِنهُ

نَفحات تَفوق مسك الغَزال

And a gazelle whose mouth breathes

Scents that surpass the musk of gazelles

راحَ يَشدو بِذكر خَمرة وَعدٍ

عِندَ سَمعي فأَسكرت آمالي

He came chanting about the wine of a promise

And my hopes were intoxicated when I heard

خَمرة صورت عُصارة جَمر

لِظُنون في أَكؤس مِن آل

A wine that was the extract of embers

For delusions in cups of the family

غادَرتَني أَيدي هَواهُ بِجسم

ناحل ماحل كَربع بالي

The hands of his love left me a body

Like a shaken palm tree

أَتَمنى خَيالَهُ وَبَعيد

أَن يَزور الخَيال طَيف الخَيال

I wish for his phantom from afar

That the phantom might visit the specter of the phantom