ألم تَرَني في كلِّ يومٍ وليلةِ

ألم تَرَني في كلِّ يومٍ وليلةِ

أحنُّ إلى من لا يحنُّ حنيني

أحنُّ إلى من لا يحنُّ حنيني

Have you not seen me, every day and night,

Don't you see me every day and night

longing for one who does not long as I do?

Yearning for one who longs not for my longing

وأندُبُ مرموساً بملساءَ قَفرةٍ

وأندُبُ مرموساً بملساءَ قَفرةٍ

فيا ليتني ناديتُ غيرَ دفينِ

فيا ليتني ناديتُ غيرَ دفينِ

And I lament one buried in a bare, desolate place.

And lamenting one buried in the smooth sands of a barren wasteland

Oh, if only I had called to someone not buried!

Oh, would that I had called on other than the buried one

كأنّي وقد قُطِّعتَ عنّيَ هالكاً

كأنّي وقد قُطِّعتَ عنّيَ هالكاً

تقطّع منّي أكْحَلى ووَتِيني

تقطّع منّي أكْحَلى ووَتِيني

It is as though, with you torn from me in death,

As though when you were cut off from me, destroyed

my arm-vein and my heart's artery had been severed.

You were cut off from me, the most beautiful and fresh

فَرَتْ نائباتُ الدّهرِ أغصانَ دَوْحَتِي

فَرَتْ نائباتُ الدّهرِ أغصانَ دَوْحَتِي

ولاقَ أُصولي ما أصاب غُصوني

ولاقَ أُصولي ما أصاب غُصوني

Time's calamities have torn apart the branches of my great tree,

The calamities of fate have broken the branches of my palm tree

and what struck my branches has taken hold of my roots.

And what befell the roots befell the branches

فإنْ بقيتْ بعد القرينِ حُشاشتي

فإنْ بقيتْ بعد القرينِ حُشاشتي

قليلاً فإنِّي لاحقٌ بقريني

قليلاً فإنِّي لاحقٌ بقريني

So if my remnant of life lingers after my companion,

If, after my companion, some life remains in me

for a little while, then surely I shall join my companion.

It will be but little before I follow my companion