1. يسأئلني ما حاجتي في دياره

    غزالٌ بأوطار الفؤاد عليمُ

    He asks me what I need in his dwellings—

    a gazelle well versed in the heart's desires.

  2. ستشهدُ لي عيناه أنهما الهوى

    ومبسمُه أنىّ عليه أحومُ

    His eyes will testify for me that they are love itself,

    and his smiling mouth, that I hover over it.

  3. أتُظهِرُ في عرفانِ ما بي جهالةً

    وما أَحدٌ في الناس منك سليمُ

    Do you feign ignorance of what you know ails me,

    when no one among humankind is safe from you?

  4. وكيف يداوِى داءَ قلبىَ باخلٌ

    على طَرِفهِ بالبُرء وهو سقيمُ

    And how can a miser cure my heart's disease,

    begrudging his own eye a cure, though it is sick?

  5. أرقِّع فيك الودَّ وهو ممزَّقٌ

    وأرعَى ذمامَ العهدِ وهو ذميمُ

    I patch up my love for you, though it is torn,

    and uphold the pledge's obligation, though it merits reproach.

  6. وفي دون ما لاقيتُ للمرء زاجرٌ

    ولكنَّ عِرْقى في الوفاء قديمُ

    And less than what I have endured would deter a man,

    yet my roots in fidelity go far back.