لِعَيْنَيْكِ مِنْ جَارَةٍ جَائِرَهْ

شَقائِي وَآمَالِي العَاثِرَهْ

For your unfair neighbor's eyes

My misfortunes and dashed hopes,

أَتَنْأَيْنَ عَنِّي وَتَجْفِيْنَنِي

لإِرْضَاءِ طَائِفَةٍ مَاكِرَهُ

Do you shun me and spurn me

To please a scheming group?

بَرِئْنَا إِلي الحُبِّ لا ذَنْبَ لِي

وَلا لِحَبِيبَتِي الهَاجِرَهْ

We are innocent of love, no sin of mine

Nor of my fleeing beloved,

وَلَكِنَّهُمْ عَلَّمُوهَا الجَفَا

ءَ وَخَطُّوا لَهَا خُطَّةَ القَاصِرَهْ

But they taught her aloofness

And plotted for her a juvenile scheme,

وَأَصْغُوا إِلَى قَوْلٍ وَاشٍ بِهَا

وَحَاشَ لَهَا أَنَّها وَازِرَهْ

And heeded idle gossip about her

Far be it from her, she is innocent,

أَذَاكَ الجَبِينُ وَبِلَّوْرُهُ

يُمَثِّلُ فِكْرَتَهَا الخَاطِرَهْ

Is that forehead and its sheen

Where her thoughts shine?

أَتِلْكَ العُيُونُ وَأَنْوَارُهَا

مَراءٍ لأَخْلاقِها البَاهِرَهْ

Are those eyes and their lights

Rivaling her splendid morals?

أَتِلْكَ الشِّفَاهُ وَمَا قَبَّلَتْ

هَا سِوَى الأُمِّ وَاللِّدَةِ الزَّائِرَهْ

Are those lips that never kissed

Except a mother and visiting aunt?

أَذَاكَ القَوَامُ وَمِنْ حُسْنِهِ

تَمِيلُ الغُصونُ لَهُ صَاغِرَهْ

Is that figure which swaying branches

أَتِلْكَ الطُّفُولَةُ وَهْيَ سِيا

جٌ لِرَوْضٍ بِهِ نَفْسُهَا طَائِرَهْ

Bow to out of humility?

Is that childhood, pride of a garden

أَذَاكَ العفَافُ وَمِما صَفَا

تَقَرُّ بِهِ المُقَلُ النَّاظِرَهْ

Where her soul freely flies?

Is that chastity, so immaculate

مَحاسِن بَغْيٍ وَأَخْلاقُ إِثْمٍ

وَزِينَةُ عَاطِلَةٍ فَاجِرَهْ

The admiring glance settles on?

Charms of sin and morals of vice,

لَعَمْرِي إِنَّهُمُ اتَّهَمُو

كِ بِمَا فِي نُفُوسِهِمُ الخَاسِرَهْ

Finery of an immoral woman,

By my life! They accused you

وَإِنَّ الَّذِي عَابَ مِنْكِ السُّفُو

رَ كَمَنْ قَالَ لِلشَّمْسِ يَا سَافِرَهْ

Of what festers in their losing souls,

He who blamed your purity

وَإِنِّي أَهْوَاكِ مِلْءَ عُيُو

نِي وَمِلْءَ حُشَاشَتِيَ الصَّابِرهْ

Is like one who calls the sun a wanderer,

And I love you with all my eyes

وَمِلْءَ الزَّمَانِ وَمِلْءَ المَكَا

نِ وَدُنْيَايَ أَجْمَعَ والاخِرَهْ

And all my patient passion,

And all of time, and all of space

فَإِنْ يَسْتَمِلْكِ إِلَيَّ الهَوَى

وَعَيْنُ العفَافِ لَنَا خَافِرَهْ

And all my life and afterlife,

If passion brings you back to me

أَلَيْسَ الهَوَى رُوحَ هَذَا الوُجُو

دِ كَمَا شَاءَتِ الحِكْمَةُ الفَاطِرَهْ

And the eye of virtue keeps guard,

Is not passion the spirit of existence

فَيجْتَمِعُ الجَوْهَرُ المُسْتَدَق

بِآخَرَ بَيْنَهُمَا آصِرَهْ

As the Wise Creator intended?

So two essences converge

وَيَأْتَلِفُ الذَّرُّ وَهْوَ خَفِيٌّ

فَيَمْثلُ فِي الصُّوَرِ الظَّاهِرَهْ

And bond intimately,

The atom, though hidden, configures

وَيَحْتَضِن التُّرْبُ حَبَّ البِذَار

رِ فَيَرْجِعُهُ جَنَّةً زَاهِرَهْ

Into visible forms,

The soil cradles the seed

وَهَذِي النجُومُ أَلَيْسَتْ كَدرٍّ

طَوَافٍ عَلَى أَبْحُرٍ زَاخِرَهْ

And returns it a blooming garden,

Are not the stars like scattered pearls

عُقُودٌ مُنَثرَةٌ بِانْتِظَا

مٍ عَلَى نَفْسِهَا أَبَداً دَائِرَهْ

Revolving forever on swelling seas,

Chains linked by love, each to its orbit

يُقَيِّدُهَا الحُبُّ بَعْضاً وَكُ

لٌّ إِلَى صِنْوِهَا صَائِرَهْ

Is bound and directed?

O Hind! My wish, object of my passion

فَيَا هِنْدُ مُنَى مُهْجَتِي

ونَاهِية القَلْبِ والآمِرَهْ

And mistress of my heart and soul,

To you I incline and you I desire

إِلَيْكِ أَمِيلُ وَإِيَّاكِ أَبْغِي

بِعَاطِفَةٍ فِي الهَوى قَاهِرَهْ

With an overwhelming love,

Where is the blemish they blame

وَمَا ثُمَّ عَيبٌ نُعَابُ بِهِ

مَعاذٌ صَبَابَتِنَا الطَّاهِرَهْ

On our pure natural bond?