أثغركَ أم بردٌ جامدُ

أم الدّر تضّدهُ النَّاضد

Is your smile a blossoming rose

Or icy, gleaming pearls?

وَوجهكَ أم قمر طالع

وقدّكَ أم غُصنٌ مائدُ

Is your face the rising moon?

Is your form a bending branch?

أيا منكراً فرط حبّي له

وما أنا في حبُه واحدُ

O you who deny my abundant love,

None love as I love, solely devoted.

أما لي مِن أَدْمعي حُجَّةٌ

عليكَ ومِن سَقَمي شاهدُ

Have I not tears enough

To argue for me, witness my pain?

لي اللهُ صَبري غداً ناقِصاً

فَشَوقي طُول المَدى زَايدُ

God grant me patience tomorrow,

Though longing always grows in me.

فديتك صِلْني فقَدْ شفَّني

السّقامُ وملني العائد

My dear, bless me, for sickness has cured me

And back has returned what was lost.

أَطَلْتَ سُهادي فحتّى متَى

تُطيلَ سُهاديَ يا راقِدُ

You've lingered in slumber so tell me,

How long will you slumber, o sleeper?

سَمِعتَ الوشاة وما زَخرفوا

وصدَّقتَ ما قالَهُ الحاسِدُ

You heard the gossips and their fake words,

And believed the envious tales they told.

لقد حلّ ما حَلّ بي منكَ مِن

غرامٍ أقرّ له الجاحِدُ

What came upon me from you was a love

That even deniers openly allowed.

خُلِقْتَ لِكلِّ الورى فتنةٌ

فَضَلَّ بكَ النّاسِكُ الزاهدُ

You were created as temptation for all people,

So even the pious hermit covets you.