أمِن بَشِيرٍ إلَى مُضنَاكَ بِالفَرَجِ

يَا مَن تَبَسَّمَ عِن دُرِّ وعن فَلَجِ

A harbinger of good news for your distressed, of relief,

O you who smiled from a pearl and from a stream,

حَسبي نُجُومُ الدُّجى بالسُّهدِ تَشهدُ لي

إن لَم تَزُر وَبَهِيمُ اللَّيلِ بِالرَّبح

My witnesses are the stars of nightfall testifying for me,

If you do not visit while the night beasts profit,

السَّيفُ والسَّهمُ والميزانُ مِنكَ غَدَت

فِي مُهجَتِي والجفون والحًَشَا الخُرُجِ

The sword, the arrow and the scale came from you

Into my temples, my eyelids and my protruding ribs,

دَاءُ الهَوَى بِفُؤَادِي لاَ دَوَاءَ لَهُ

إلاَّ شِفَاهُ اللَّمَا مِن ثَغرِكَ البَهِجِ

The illness of passion in my heart has no cure

Except the lips of union from your radiant mouth,

بِاللهِ سَل ثَغرَكَ الدُّرّيَّ عَن ظَمَئِي

وَرِيقَكَ البَارِدَ المَعسُولَ عَن وَهَجِي

For God's sake, ask your pearly mouth about my thirst

And your cool sweet saliva about my ardor,

مَالِي بِرُوحِي التي في الحبّ مذ تَلِفَت

إن لَم تَكُن أنتَ للشَّكوَى بِمُنعَرِجِ

What can I do with my soul that perished in love

If you are not there for my lament and refuge,

قطعت لَيلِي بسيفِ السُّهدِ حتَّى غَدَا

مِن لَحظِ غَنجِك عَبداً سارِقاً دَعج

I spent my night cutting it with the sword of Suhad till it became

From a glance of your coyness, a fleeting pilfering slave,

طَالَ وَاللَّيل إذ هَجرت

حَتَّى ظَنَنتُ بِأنَّ الصُّبحَ لَيس يَجِي

Long has the night been as you deserted

That I imagined dawn does not come