1. فتور على أجفانها وفتون

    تريك معاني الحسن كيف تكون

    Languor and enchantment lie upon her eyelids.

    She shows you how beauty's meanings take form.

  2. محجبة ما خلت قبل جفونها

    على كبدِي إنَّ السيوف جفون

    She is veiled—I had never imagined, before her eyelids

    Lay upon my liver, that swords could be eyelids.

  3. أخاف فأبكي بعدها قبل وقته

    فيا لعيون دمعهنَّ عيون

    I fear, and so weep for her departure before its time.

    And oh, those eyes whose tears are springs!

  4. ويا عاذلاً يقسو عليَّ وما رأى

    ثرى لمحة من وجهها وتلين

    And O reproacher, harsh with me, who has never seen

    The dust of a glimpse of her face—and you soften [wording unclear].

  5. لقد كنت ذا قلب كقلبك عاقل

    فجنَّ لليلى والجنون فنون

    Indeed, I once had a sane heart like yours.

    So it went mad for Layla—and madness has many forms.

  6. وطال حديث الناس عن شجني بها

    فقد صحَّ لي إن الحديث شجون

    And people's talk of my sorrow over her grew long.

    So it proved true to me: talk is a tangle of sorrows.

  7. ألا من لصبٍّ من جفاه وشجوه

    شكى السقم حتَّى ما يكادُ يبين

    Ah, who will aid a lovesick man who, from his estrangement and sorrow,

    Has complained of sickness until he can scarcely make himself understood?