1. يا ناعس الطرف قد فازت أعادينا

    واستبشروا بمناهم في تجافينا

    O languid-eyed one, our enemies have triumphed.

    And they rejoiced at their wishes fulfilled through our estrangement.

  2. وكف عنا كؤوس الصفو ساكبها

    وعاد بالشجو والأحزان يسقينا

    And the pourer of the cups of bliss withheld them from us,

    and returned to give us grief and sorrows to drink.

  3. وودعتنا أماني الوصل مسرعة

    حتى غدونا بمنأى عن أمانينا

    And hopes of union hastily bade us farewell,

    until we were far removed from our hopes.

  4. واستسلمت لظلام اليأس انفسنا

    إلا العلالات من ذكرى تلاقينا

    And our souls surrendered to the darkness of despair,

    save for small consolations from the memory of our meeting.

  5. وكان بالأمس شادي الورق يطربنا

    لكنه إن يغني اليوم يشجينا

    And yesterday the gray doves' songster delighted us,

    but if it sings today, it saddens us.

  6. فقد سمعتم إلى إرجاف عاذلنا

    وقد أطعتم وشايات الهوى فينا

    For you have listened to our reproacher's malicious rumors,

    and have heeded love's slanders against us.

  7. ما كان ظني بكم يا منتهى أملي

    أن الوشاة تقصيكم فتقصينا

    I never expected this of you, O my utmost hope:

    that talebearers would estrange you and thus estrange us,

  8. وأن ما زعم الحساد مقتدر

    أن يطمئت إليه قلبكم حينا

    and that what the envious claimed had the power

    to win your heart's trust, even for a while;

  9. وأنكم تؤثرون الشك إن عرضت

    به البوارق من إرعاد لاحينا

    and that you would prefer doubt, should there appear

    its lightning flashes from our faultfinder's thunder;

  10. وأنكم قد صممتم عن معاذرنا

    لم تسمعوها واسمعتم أهاجينا

    and that you had turned deaf to our excuses.

    You did not hear them, yet gave voice to lampoons against us.

  11. زعمتمونا نقضنا عهدهم وغدا

    لنا بغيركمو شكل يعينا

    You claimed we had broken their pledge, and that there was now

    a companion for us, other than you, to help us.

  12. و ما عنانا سواكم في الدنى أحد

    ولا غرينا به أن بات يغرينا

    Yet no one but you in all the worlds has mattered to us,

    nor were we enamored of anyone because he spent the night enticing us.

  13. إنا وإياكم نجمان في فلك

    يديره الحب في آفاق ماضينا

    We and you are two stars in an orbit,

    which love turns within the horizons of our past.

  14. مهما اختصمنا فإن الشوق يجمعنا

    أو افترقنا فإن الحب يدنينا

    However we quarrel, longing brings us together,

    or if we part, love draws us near.

  15. فما ترى اليوم من صبري ومن جلدي

    فللكرامة فضل من تأسينا

    As for the patience and endurance you see in me today,

    dignity deserves a share of the credit for our consolation.