أَلا حَبَّ بِالبَيتِ الّذِى أَنتَ هاجِرُهُ

وَأَنتَ بِتَلماحٍ مِن الطَّرفِ زائِرُه

Oh how I love the house where you dwell

Though from afar I visit and foretell

فَإِنَّكَ مِن بَيتٍ لَعَينِىَ مُعجِبٌ

وَاَحسَنُ فِى عَينِى مِنَ البَيتِ عامِرُهُ

For you live in a house that dazzles my eye

And is far better than a home left empty

أَصُدُّ حَيَاءً أَن يَلِجَّ بِىَ الهَوَى

وَفِيكَ المُنَى لَولاَ عَدُوٌّ حاذِرُه

I shun my longing for you out of shyness

Though with you is my bliss if not for prying eyes

وَكَم لائمٍ لَولال نَفاسَةُ حُبِّها

عَلَيكَ لَمَا بالَيتَ أَنّكَ خَابِرُه

How many would blame me if her nobility

Did not prevent you from learning you have a lover

أُحِبُّكِ يا لَيلَى عَلى غَيرِ رِيبَةٍ

وَما خَيرُ حُبٍّ لا تَعَفُّ سَرائِرُه

I love you Leila beyond any doubt

What good is love if it does not hide its secrets?

وَقَد مَاتَ قَبلِى أَوَّلُ الحُبِّ فَانقَضَى

فَإِن مِتُّ أَضحَى الحُبُّ قَد ماتَ آخِرُه

My first love died before me and faded away

If I die, the last of my love dies in its tracks

فَلَمّا تَنَاهَى الحُبُّ فِى القَلبِ وارداً

أَقامَ وَأَعيَت بَعد ذاكَ مَصَادِرُه

When love flowed into my heart to stay

It remained though its sources ebbed away

وَقَد كانَ قَلبِى فِى حِجابٍ يُكنُّهُ

وَحُبُّكِ مِن دُونِ الحِجابِ يُسَاتِرُه

My heart was veiled but your love still peered

From beyond the veil to find what it endeared

فَماذَا الّذِى يَشفَى مِن الحُبِّ بَعدَما

تَشَرَّبَهُ بَطنُ الفُؤَادِ وَظاهِرُه

What can heal my love now that it has seeped

Into my heart's core and over it streamed?