1. الحبُّ داءٌ عياءٌ لا دواء له

    تضلُّ فيه الأطباء النحاريرُ

    Love is an incurable disease for which there is no cure.

    Expert physicians lose their way in it.

  2. قد كنتُ أحسبُ أنّ العاشقين غَلُوا

    في وصفه فإذا في القوم تقصير

    I used to think that lovers went too far

    In describing it—but behold, they fall short.

  3. سُقياً لأيام لم أخْبُرْه تجربةً

    إلا بما وصفتْ عنه الأخابير

    May rain bless the days when I knew it not through experience,

    But only through what the tales told of it.