الحر اصبح في هواك رقيقا

يهدي لوجنتك النسيب رقيقا

The free man has become a slave in his love for you.

He offers tender love verse to your cheek.

نشوان لست افيق من سكر الهوى

أأفاق صب من هوى فافيقا

Intoxicated, I do not sober from love’s drunkenness.

Has any lover sobered from love, that I should sober?

كم ليلة قد بت ارعى بدرها

واراقب الجوزاء والعيوقا

How many a night have I spent watching its full moon,

and observing Orion and Capella.

ونثرت ياقوت الدموع تذكراً

لفم تضمن لؤلؤاً وعقيقا

And I scattered the rubies of tears in remembrance

of a mouth that held pearls and carnelian.

ما بات قلبي بالغرام مقيدا

الا وعاد الدمع فيه طليقا

My heart has never spent the night fettered by passion

without tears within it running free.

حدّث رعاك الله عن بان الحمى

أيام يجمع شائقاً ومشوقا

Tell—may God guard you—of the bān tree of the sanctuary,

in the days it united one who stirred longing with one who yearned.

وشقيق حسن قد حكت اعطافه

رمحاً وناضر وجنتيه شقيقا

And of beauty’s brother, whose form resembled

a spear, and whose cheeks’ fresh bloom resembled anemones.

يقسو ويأبى ان يرق لمغرم

دمه بأسياف الغرام اريقا

He is harsh and refuses tenderness to a lover

whose blood was spilled by the swords of passion.

قسم الجمال فكان فاتر طرفه

سهمي فعاد به الفؤاد رشيقا

Beauty was apportioned, and his languid gaze became

my share; through it, my heart was pierced.

من لفظه ورضابه وخدوده

ولحاظه يسقى المحب رحيقا

From his speech, his saliva, and his cheeks,

and his glances, the lover is given nectar to drink.