1. في تجنِّيكَ والجَفا إِفراطُ

    فَإلى كمَ تَجبُّرٌ واشتطاطُ

    Your unjust reproaches and coldness are excessive.

    How long, then, this haughtiness and overstepping?

  2. كلَّما كانَ منكَ عنِّي انقباضٌ

    زادَ منكَ الإِعجابُ والانبساطُ

    Whenever you withdraw from me,

    Your self-admiration and cheerfulness increase.

  3. أنتَ أدرَى بما يُلاقيه قلبي

    مِن غرامٍ بكُنههِ لا يُحاطُ

    You know best what my heart endures

    Of a passion whose true nature cannot be fathomed.

  4. إِن تكن مِن حَشاي فوقَ حشايا

    فَخُدودي لأَخمصيكَ بِساطُ

    If you rest on cushions made of my heart's core,

    Then my cheeks are a carpet for the arches of your feet.

  5. لا تسَل غيرَ سَهمٍ جفنيكَ عنِّي

    فبقلبي مِنهُ السِّهامُ تُناطُ

    Ask only the arrow of your eyelids about me,

    For the arrows from it are fastened in my heart.

  6. كانَ العِشقَ معشرٌ ما لهُمُ رَك

    ضي إِذا ما تَناءتِ الأشواطُ

    A company was love [opening wording unclear]; they lack my run—

    —ning when the courses stretch far away.

  7. كلُّ قِنطارِ لَوعةٍ وزفيرِ

    في زفيري ولَوعَتي قِيراطُ

    Every quintal of anguish and sighing

    Is a mere carat beside my sighing and anguish.