نبتْ عينها عن عاشقٍ قَبَّحتْ لها

نبتْ عينها عن عاشقٍ قَبَّحتْ لها

محاسنَهُ المسكينَ آثارُ حبِّهِ

محاسنَهُ المسكينَ آثارُ حبِّهِ

Her gaze recoiled from a lover; made ugly in her eyes

Her eyes turned away from a lover, she denounced

were his charms, poor man, by the marks of his love.

His charms, the traces of his love made the poor soul less fair

فقالت لها أترابها حين أعرضت

فقالت لها أترابها حين أعرضت

بذنبكِ عاقبتِ الفتى لا بذنبِهِ

بذنبكِ عاقبتِ الفتى لا بذنبِهِ

Then her peers said to her when she turned away:

Her friends said to her when she turned away

For your own fault you punished the youth, not for his.

You have punished the youth not for his sins but for yours

هواكِ الذي أبلاهُ حتى شنِئْتِهِ

هواكِ الذي أبلاهُ حتى شنِئْتِهِ

وحتى رأيتِ الموتَ عِدْلاً لقربِهِ

وحتى رأيتِ الموتَ عِدْلاً لقربِهِ

Love for you is what wore him out until you loathed him,

It was your love that afflicted him until you came to despise him

And until you deemed death the equal of being near him.

And until you saw death as justice for being close to him

وقد تُسلميهِ للمنيّةِ بعدما

وقد تُسلميهِ للمنيّةِ بعدما

ذهبتِ بحلو العيش منه وعذبِهِ

ذهبتِ بحلو العيش منه وعذبِهِ

And you may consign him to death, after

And now you would deliver him to death after

you have robbed him of life's sweetness and delight.

You have taken the sweetness and joy of life from him