حَبَاكَ الجَمالُ وَأَوْفَى النَّصِيبَا

فَصِرْتَ إِلى كُلّ قَلْبٍ حَبِيبَا

Beauty has gifted you, fulfilling your share

So you became every heart's beloved

وَرَدَّ جَلالُكَ عَنْكَ العُيُونَ

فَكُنْتَ الحَبِيبَ وَكُنْتَ الرَّقِيبا

Your glory distracts eyes away from you

Thus you were the beloved and the vigilant

مَنعْتَ دُمُوعِيَ أَنْ لا تَصُوبَ

وَأَسْهُمَ عَيْنَيكَ أَنْ لا تُصِيبا

You prevented my tears from missing

And your eyes' arrows from striking

وَأَقْسَمْتَ أَنْ لا يَراكَ امْرُؤٌ

سِوَى نَظْرَةٍ ثُمَّ يَدْعُو الطَّبِيبَا

You swore none shall see you

Save a glance before calling the doctor

وَحُسْنُكَ أَقْبَلَ فِي جَحْفَلٍ

فَلِمْ فِيكَ أَضْحَى فَريداً غَريباً

Your beauty approached in throngs

Why then in you became solitary and strange?

حَبيبَ القُلوبِ أَذَبْتَ العُيونَ

حَبِيبَ الفُؤادِ أَذبْتَ القُلوبَا

Beloved of hearts, you wasted the eyes

Beloved of souls, you wasted the hearts

أَيا كَعْبةَ الحُسْنِ إِنّي جَعلْتُ

عَلى سَلْوَةِ الحُبِّ مِنّي صَليبَا

O shrine of beauty, I made

Of love's firmness a cross from me

أَجابَتْ فَلَمْ تَلْقَ مِنّي نِدا

ونَادَتْ فَلَمْ تَلْقَ مِنّي مُجِيبَا

It answered yet found no peer from me

It called yet found no respondent from me