يا بَدرَ تمٍّ لَيسَ لي

يا بَدرَ تمٍّ لَيسَ لي

مِنهُ سِوى رَعي النُجومِ

مِنهُ سِوى رَعي النُجومِ

O full moon, I have nothing

O full moon whose only task for me

from you but keeping watch over the stars.

Is to shepherd the stars,

أَجفانُكَ السَّكرى مُعَر

أَجفانُكَ السَّكرى مُعَر

بِدَةٌ كَثيراتُ الخُصومِ

بِدَةٌ كَثيراتُ الخُصومِ

Your drunken eyelids are riot-

Your drunken eyelids

ous, with many foes.

Have many a foe,

ما سُكرُها إِلّا بِما

ما سُكرُها إِلّا بِما

في فيكَ مِن بِنتِ الكُرومِ

في فيكَ مِن بِنتِ الكُرومِ

Their drunkenness comes only from what

Their tipsiness comes but

your mouth holds of the daughter of the vines.

From the daughter of the vine in you,

لَو ذُقتُ خَمرَ لَماكَ لَم

لَو ذُقتُ خَمرَ لَماكَ لَم

أَكُ شاكِياً طولَ الهُمومِ

أَكُ شاكِياً طولَ الهُمومِ

Had I tasted the wine of your dark lips, I would not

Had I tasted the wine of your cheeks

be lamenting the length of my sorrows.

My sorrows would not have lingered,

نَقَلَ القُلوبَ هَواكَ عَن

نَقَلَ القُلوبَ هَواكَ عَن

حُكمِ الخُصوصِ إِلى العُمومِ

حُكمِ الخُصوصِ إِلى العُمومِ

Love for you has moved hearts from

Your love has carried hearts

the rule of the particular to that of the universal.

From privacy to the common.