1. أيقظتِ فيَّ عواطفي وخيالي   

    وبعثت مني ميِّتَ الآمالٍ

    You awakened my feelings and imagination within me,

    And revived the hopes that had died within me.

  2. وأثرتِ نفسي بعد طول سكونها   

    في حين لم يخطرْ هواكِ ببالي

    You stirred my soul after its long stillness,

    When love for you had not crossed my mind.

  3. وحسبتِني أصبحتُ جمراً هامداً   

    وظننتني أحيا بقلبٍ خال

    You thought I had become cold embers,

    And imagined I lived with an empty heart.

  4. فإذا بحبك هاجَ ما عفَّيْتُه   

    وأجدَّ لي الوجدَ القديم البالي

    Then suddenly your love stirred what I had effaced,

    And renewed for me the old, faded passion.

  5. وغدوتُ أشقى ما أكون تنعُّماً   

    بهواك لما دبَّ في أوصالي

    And I grew most wretched in the bliss

    Of loving you, when it crept through my limbs.

  6. أنسَيْتِني الماضي بما أودعتِه   

    من حزن أيامٍ وسُهْدِ ليال

    You made me forget the past and all you filled it with—

    The sorrow of days and the sleeplessness of nights.

  7. ومحوتِ من فكري الذي قاسيتُه   

    في هذه الدنيا من الأهوال

    And erased from my mind what I had endured

    Of terrors in this world.

  8. فرضيتُ ما قسم القضاءُ وما انطوتْ   

    نفسي عليه من الأسى القتّال

    So I accepted what fate allotted, and all

    The deadly sorrow my soul enfolded.

  9. وغنِيتُ عن نُعْمَى الحياة وطيبِها   

    فشقاوتي في الحب واسْترْسالي

    And I had no need of life's blessings and pleasures,

    For my misery lies in love and my surrender to it.