مذهبي حبُّ رشا ذي جسدٍ مُذهَّبِ

قَدْ حُبي حسناً بهِ يستعذبُ القدحَ بي

My doctrine is love of a graceful body doctrined

I've loved a beauty with which the cup is sweetened

عاذلاً ما أنتَ في لومِكَ لي عادلا

سائلا يخبركَ دمعٌ قدْ همى سائلا

Reproaching, you're not just in blaming me, reproaching

A questioner, a weeping tear has made him question

آه لا تعذل فما قلبي بذا آهلا

منصبي والعقلُ أذهبْتهُما مِنْ صبي

Ah, do not blame me, for my heart is not to blame, ah

My purpose and reason, infatuation has erased them

ما رُبي إلاّ وقدْ ربي فيهِ ما ربي

رقَّ ما في خدِّهِ الورديِّ قدْ رقما

I am not brought up but brought up in me what I'm brought up

Softened what's on his rosy cheek has softened

عندما رأيتُ دمعي قدْ حكى عندما

ضرَّما في مهجتي مِنْ هجرِهِ ضرَّما

When I saw my tear has narrated when

Pained in my bowels from his estrangement pained

منْ أبي يأبى الرضى نلتُ الجفا من أبي

فارعَ بي رضاهُ يا قلبُ تهْ وارعبِ

From my father who refuses consent, I got estrangement from my father

So please him with his consent, O heart, and please

من صَلَى لي فخَّهُ بل قدْ نضا منصلا

أو لا ملازم آخره أولا

Whoever prays for me, but he prayed estranging

Or no bosom friend, end what was begun

بلبلا فؤادُ مضناهُ بلى بل بلا

فانْهَ بي غيري ولذاتِ الغرامِ انهَبِ

Nightingale, his suffering heart, yes, nightingale, pain

For with me is another, and for the pleasures of passion, with me

وَالْهَ بي عن عذل بل يا حشاي الهبي

ما نسي طيبَ زمانِ الوصل فيَّ ما نسي

And the woe is me from blame, rather, O my companions, woe

Not forgetting the fragrance of the days of union in me not forgetting

والمسي رقيبنا بالكف لم ألمس

جانسي حربي فألفى كلما جانسي

And the toucher our watcher with the palm I have not touched

My companion, my war so I found whenever my companion

وارْقَ بي يا طرفُ سهداً والنجومَ ارقبِ

واشن بي مَنْ لم يهمْ في ثغرِ أشنبِ

And shed tears for me, O eyelid, shedding and the stars, shed

And arouse in me, who did not care for my lip, arouse