1. يا دهرُ مالَكَ مني

    من بعد هذا منال

    O Time, you have nothing left

    To gain from me after this.

  2. لم يبق لي غير شعري

    أما أنا فخيال

    Nothing remains to me but my poetry;

    As for me, I am a phantom.

  3. لا فوق عظمي لحمٌ

    فقد عراني الهزال

    No flesh lies upon my bones,

    For wasting has seized me.

  4. عفت الوجود وعافت

    وجداني الآمال

    I have spurned existence, and

    Hopes have spurned my heart.

  5. كأنما الأرض حولي

    صحراءُ والعيش آل

    As though the earth around me were

    A desert, and life a mirage.

  6. رميت يا دهر ميتاً

    ما آلمته النصال

    You have shot at a dead man, O Time;

    The arrowheads caused him no pain.

  7. لقد نعتني الغواني

    وعيد العذال

    The beautiful women have announced my death,

    And the reproachers have celebrated.

  8. ماذا تحاول مني

    يا أيها المحتال

    What do you seek from me,

    O you schemer?

  9. ما في سراجي زيت

    ولا بكفي مال

    There is no oil in my lamp,

    Nor money in my palm.

  10. حارب من الناس غيري

    أليس فيهم رجال

    Wage war on someone else among the people;

    Are there not men among them?