1. أخو دَنَفٍ رَمَتهُ فاقصدته

    سهامٌ من جفونكِ لاتطيشُ

    A man wasted by sickness, shot and mortally wounded

    by arrows from your eyelids that never miss.

  2. قواتلُ لا نصالَ سوى احورارٍ

    بهنَّ ولا سوى الأهداب ريشُ

    Deadly—their only arrowheads the eyes’ vivid black and white,

    and their only feathers the lashes.

  3. أصبنَ سواءَ مُهجته فأضحى

    سقيماً لا يموتُ ولا يعيش

    They struck the very core of his heart, and he became

    sick, neither dying nor living.

  4. كئيبٌ إن ترحَّلَ عنه جيشٌ

    من البلوى أناخ به جيوشُ

    Grief-stricken: whenever he is left by one army

    of affliction, armies encamp upon him.