أتى العيد نازلى ولم نلتق   

أتى العيد نازلى ولم نلتق

وغامت سمائى فلم تشرق

وغامت سمائى فلم تشرق

Eid has come, Nazli, and we have not met.

The feast day came while we were apart

And my sky has clouded over, so it has not brightened.

And my skies remained overcast

أتى العيد يطرق بابى فما

أتى العيد يطرق بابى فما

أجاب سوى دمعى المهرق

أجاب سوى دمعى المهرق

Eid came knocking at my door, and none

The feast day knocked on my door, but

Answered save my outpoured tears.

None responded except my streaming tears

أعيد وأنت بعيد هناك   

أعيد وأنت بعيد هناك

تقيمين تحت الثرى المطبق

تقيمين تحت الثرى المطبق

Is it Eid, while you are far away there,

Another feast while you are far away

Dwelling beneath the enclosing earth?

Lying beneath the pressed soil

لقد كنت ظلا أفىء إليه

لقد كنت ظلا أفىء إليه

وأهرب من يومى المرهق

وأهرب من يومى المرهق

You were indeed a shade to which I would return,

You were the shade I sought refuge in

And flee from my exhausting day.

And escaped from my weary day

وقد كنت قلبا كبير المنى   

وقد كنت قلبا كبير المنى

لغير المحبة لم يخلق

لغير المحبة لم يخلق

And indeed you were a heart of great hopes,

You were a heart full of hope

Created for nothing but love.

Created for nothing but love

وكنت قصيدا جديد الرؤى

وكنت قصيدا جديد الرؤى

شجيا، معانيه لم تطرق

شجيا، معانيه لم تطرق

And you were a poem of fresh visions,

You were a fresh visioned ode

Plaintive, its meanings never before explored.

Yearning, your meanings unexplored

مضى كل هذا ولم يبق لى

مضى كل هذا ولم يبق لى

سوى ذكريات الأسى الموبق

سوى ذكريات الأسى الموبق

All this has passed, and nothing remains for me

All this has passed and nothing remains

But memories of devastating grief.

Except memories of ruinous sorrow

فيا لهف نفسى ماذا مضى

فيا لهف نفسى ماذا مضى

ويالهف نفسى ماذا بقى

ويالهف نفسى ماذا بقى

Oh, my soul's anguish—what has passed away!

Oh how my soul yearns, what has passed?

And oh, my soul's anguish—what remains!

Oh how my soul yearns, what remains?