1. نَصيبِيَ منكِ اليومَ هجرٌ وبغضَةٌ

    وما لكِ إِلّا في الودادِ نَصيبُ

    My share from you today is estrangement and hatred;

    yet your share is nothing but affection.

  2. وَقَلبُكِ مِن حُبّي صَحيح مسلَّمٌ

    وَقَلبيَ فيهِ مِن هواكِ ندوبُ

    And your heart is sound, unscathed by love for me,

    while my heart bears scars from love for you.

  3. وَرابَكِ مِنّي قبل أَن تَتبيّني

    بِأَنْ لَيسَ لي أَمرٌ عليهِ مَشيبُ

    And what troubled you in me, before you realized

    that I have no control over it, was gray hair.

  4. وَعاقَبني ظلماً وَكَم من مُعَاقَبٍ

    وَلَيسَ لَهُ عندَ الحسان ذنوبُ

    And it punished me unjustly—how many a man is punished,

    though he has no sins in the eyes of the fair!

  5. وَلَيسَ عَجيباً شيبُ رَأسي وَإِنّما

    صدودُك عَن ذاكَ المشيب عجيبُ

    The graying of my head is not strange; rather,

    your turning away from that gray hair is strange.

  6. هَبيهِ نَهاراً بَعد ليلٍ وروضةً

    تضاحك فيها النّور وهيَ قَطوبُ

    Consider it day after night, and a garden

    where blossoms smile together, though it frowns.

  7. وَلا تَطلُبي شَرخَ الشّبابِ وَقَد مَضى

    فذلكَ شَيءٌ ما أَراه يثوبُ

    And do not seek youth's prime, now that it has passed;

    for that is something I do not see returning.