أَأَحيا بَعدَ صَدِّك إِن عُمري

لَعَمرُكَ بَعدَ ذا عُمرٌ طَويلُ

Shall I live on after your rejection? Truly, my life—

by your life—is, after this, a life too long.

بُليتُ عَلى مُطاوَلَة اللَّيالي

وَحُبُّك ما يمحُّ وَما يَزولُ

I have been tried by having to outlast the nights,

while love of you neither slackens nor departs.

رَأَيتُكَ قَد عَقَدتَ عَلى جَفائي

كَأَنَّ زِيارَتي ذَنبٌ جَليلُ

I see that you have resolved to shun me,

as though my visiting you were a grievous sin.

سِهامُ المَوتِ مُقبِلَةٌ وَإِنِّي

أَرى أَنِّي لِأَوَّلِها قَتيلُ

The arrows of death are advancing—and I

believe the very first of them will strike me dead.