خليلي ما لي لا ارى القلب موضعه

وشت فهل رأي افيد الاجمعه

My two friends, why do I not see the heart in its place?

It has scattered; is there counsel I may receive to gather it?

بحقكما رفقا بمضنى موله

كثير هيام لم يكن قلبه معه

I implore you both: be gentle with one worn and bewildered by love,

A man of deep passion, whose heart is not with him.

يحن لارجاء الحبيب تلهفا

وخضر ربوع بالمحاسن مربعه

He yearns in anguish for the beloved's precincts,

And green abodes, flourishing with beauty.

فلله كم اهدى رباها اننيه

واجرى لها من لب عينيه ادمعه

By God, how often he offered their hills his moaning,

And poured out his tears for them from the depths of his eyes.

سقى العارض الهتان منها حدائقا

ازاهرها بالدر تزهو مقنعه

May the downpouring cloud water gardens there,

Whose blossoms shine, veiled in pearls.

حدائق هذي الروح تفتر حولها

فترتاح في تلك الرياض المرصعه

Gardens around which this soul smiles,

And finds rest in those jewel-studded meadows.

حبيباه بالود القديم ترحما

اغثني بصوت القرب منك لاسمعه

O my beloved, by the love of old, have mercy;

Come to my aid with the voice of nearness to you, that I may hear it.

فلي مقلة للبعد قرحها البكا

وقلب كئيب صادع البين اوجعه

For I have an eye that weeping over separation has wounded,

And a grieving heart, pained by separation's rending force.

يدوب الى لقياك قلبي لوعة

فرفقا باجزاء الفؤاد المولعه

My heart melts in burning longing to meet you;

So be gentle with the heart's love-stricken fragments.

وتأخذني مني اليك بواعث

ارى مهجتي منها لدارك مزمعه

And impulses draw me out of myself toward you;

I see my soul, moved by them, resolved to reach your abode.

احاولها ان لا تروح تقول لي

اذا الريم لم اشهده اشهد مرتعه

I try to keep it from departing; it says to me:

"If I do not behold the gazelle, I shall behold its grazing ground."

لقد غبت يا نور العيون تحجبا

متى فجرك الوضاح ابصر مطلعه

You have indeed withdrawn, O light of eyes, veiling yourself;

When shall I behold the rising of your radiant dawn?

وتجلى لعيني بعد ان انت تنجلي

بمطلعك العالي معاني اربعه

And once you unveil yourself, my eyes behold

Four qualities at your exalted rising:

بهاء ولطف والجمال الذي على

حواشيه سمر بالجلال مشرعه

Splendor, grace, and beauty, along

Whose fringes brown lances are leveled in majesty.

فانظر منك العين بالعين والهوى

يحلك في روحي على الرحب والدعه

So I behold your eye with my own, while love

Lodges you in my soul, amid spaciousness and ease.