أكحيلة الاجفان بالسحر الذي

أكحيلة الاجفان بالسحر الذي

لولاه مادرت البلابل بابل

لولاه مادرت البلابل بابل

O you whose eyelids are kohled with the sorcery

The kohl of the eyelids with the magic that

without which Babel would never have known anguish!

Without it the nightingales would not have known Babylon

قد كان قلبي غافلا عما به

قد كان قلبي غافلا عما به

أودى وقلب أخي السلامة غافل

أودى وقلب أخي السلامة غافل

My heart had been heedless of that through which

My heart had been heedless of what was in it

it perished; the heart of one accustomed to safety is heedless,

And the heart of my brother wellbeing was heedless

حتى دهاني منك صدر رامح

حتى دهاني منك صدر رامح

ذرب سناناه وطرف قاتل

ذرب سناناه وطرف قاتل

until your lance-bearing bosom assailed me,

Until I was struck by you, chest of a lancer

its two spearheads keen, and a deadly glance.

Whose teeth strike and whose glance is deadly

ما عقدك المهنا بجيدك درة

ما عقدك المهنا بجيدك درة

لكن فرند في حسام جائل

لكن فرند في حسام جائل

Your blessed necklace at your throat is no pearl,

Your necklace was not knotted at your neck out of affliction

but watered-steel patterning in a whirling sword.

But a pearl in a relentless sword