1. أَذابَ قَلبي الوَهجُ

    فَهَل لَهمي فَرجُ

    The blaze has melted my heart.

    Is there, then, relief for my sorrow?

  2. لَم يَبقَ لي إِلّا بَقا

    يا رَمَق تَختَلج

    Nothing remains to me but remnants

    of a last spark of life, still quivering.

  3. وَبي أَغَر أَبلَج

    في وَجنَتَيهِ ضرج

    And I am smitten with one fair and radiant,

    upon whose cheeks is a crimson flush.

  4. يَوجد وجداً في الجَما

    د مِنهُ لَحظ غَنج

    Passion is stirred in lifeless matter

    by a coquettish glance from him.

  5. في خَدهِ ماءُ الحَيا

    بِجَمرِهِ مُمتَزَج

    On his cheek, rainwater

    is mingled with that cheek's embers.

  6. يُغضِب مِن حُبي لَهُ

    وَلَيسَ فيهِ حَرَج

    My love for him provokes anger,

    yet there is no wrong in it.

  7. قَد لَجَّ في صَدودِهِ

    فَدَمع عَيني لَجج

    He has stubbornly persisted in turning away,

    so my eye's tears are deep seas.

  8. وَالحُب دارٌ مُزعِجٌ

    تَذوب فيهِ المُهَج

    And love is an unsettling abode;

    souls melt within it.

  9. فَلا تَلُم أَهل الهَوى

    فَاللَوم فيهِ سَمج

    So do not blame those in love,

    for blame in it is unseemly.

  10. لَو وَجَدَ العُشاق لل

    نَجاة باباً وَلَجوا

    If lovers found, for

    escape, a door, they would enter it.