أَغَزالُ قولي لِلغَزالِ الأَحوَرِ

أَغَزالُ قولي لِلغَزالِ الأَحوَرِ

أَضمَرتَ غَدراً لَيسَ عَنكَ بِمُضمَرِ

أَضمَرتَ غَدراً لَيسَ عَنكَ بِمُضمَرِ

O gazelle, tell the dark-eyed gazelle:

My gazelle words to the graceful gazelle

You have harbored treachery that is not hidden from you.

You harbored betrayal though you feigned otherwise

إِذهَب فَلَم أَجزَع عَلَيكَ وَرُبَّما

إِذهَب فَلَم أَجزَع عَلَيكَ وَرُبَّما

صَبَّرتُ عَنكَ حَشاشَةً لَم تَصبِرِ

صَبَّرتُ عَنكَ حَشاشَةً لَم تَصبِرِ

Go, for I did not grieve over you; and many a time

Go away, I won't grieve for you, perhaps

I made a remnant of life bear your absence, though it could not endure.

I endured your fickleness with patience you could not endure

يا وارِداً لَجَّت بِهِ هَفَواتُهُ

يا وارِداً لَجَّت بِهِ هَفَواتُهُ

ما كُنتَ أَوَّلَ وارِدٍ لَم يَصدُرِ

ما كُنتَ أَوَّلَ وارِدٍ لَم يَصدُرِ

O water-seeker whose missteps drove him relentlessly onward,

Oh frequent visitor led astray by his passions

You were not the first to seek water and never return.

You weren't the first to come who didn't stay

ظَفِرَت بِكَ الأَيّامُ بَعدَ تَمَنُّعٍ

ظَفِرَت بِكَ الأَيّامُ بَعدَ تَمَنُّعٍ

ظَفَرَ الهُمومِ بِعاشِقٍ لَم يَظفَرِ

ظَفَرَ الهُمومِ بِعاشِقٍ لَم يَظفَرِ

The days have triumphed over you after your resistance,

The days had their way with you after aloofness

As cares triumph over a lover who has not triumphed.

As worries had their way with a lover who didn't succeed

يا لَيتَ شِعري ضَلَّ عَقلُكَ كُلُّهُ

يا لَيتَ شِعري ضَلَّ عَقلُكَ كُلُّهُ

أَم هَذِهِ أَيّامُ ثَقبِ الجَوهَرِ

أَم هَذِهِ أَيّامُ ثَقبِ الجَوهَرِ

Oh, if only I knew: has all your reason gone astray,

Oh would that I knew, did you lose all reason

Or are these the days of piercing the jewel?

Or are these the days of piercing jewels?