1. اِن بانَ خَبني بِلُقياكُم فَلى زَمن

    يَطوي خيال الاِسى في راحَةِ الاِسف

    If my contraction shows when I meet you, I have endured an age

    that folds sorrow’s phantom into the palm of regret.

  2. تَبَّت يَداهُ فَكَم بِالكَفِّ أَعصَبَني

    عَنِ اللُقا وَاِنثنى لِلزَّحفِ في تَلفى

    May its hands perish! How often it has bound me, holding me back

    from reunion, and turned to creep toward my ruin.

  3. اِو زادَ جِسمي اِعتِلالا بِالخَفيفِ فَلى

    روح لَدَيهِم وَشكل حاضِر وَخَفى

    Or if my body grows more ailing in the light measure, I have

    a soul with them, and a form both present and hidden.

  4. مَجموع اِوتاد قَلبي في الهَوى اِفتَرَقت

    وَما لِذلِكَ أَسباب سِوى الصلف

    My heart’s gathered pegs have scattered in love,

    and there are no causes for that except arrogance.

  5. عاقَبتُموني وَما راقَبتُمو ذِمما

    وَكَم قَطَعتُم وَلَم تَرِثوا اِلى شَغف

    You punished me and honored no pledges;

    and how often you severed ties, showing no pity for passion.

  6. يا كامِلَ الحُسنِ أَسرِع بِالوِصالِ فَلى

    دَهر مَديد وَأَحشائي عَلى جَرف

    O you perfect in beauty, hasten to reunion, for I have endured

    a long age, with my entrails upon a precipice.