1. وما أنس مِل الأشياء لا أنسى قولها

    بنفسي بين لي متى أنت راجعٌ

    Whatever things I may forget, I do not forget her words:

    “I would ransom you with my life—tell me, when will you return?”

  2. فقلت لها واللَه ما من مسافر

    يحيط له علمُ بما اللَه صانعُ

    So I told her, “By God, no traveler

    can fully know what God will do.”

  3. فقالت ودمع العين يحدِرُ كحلَها

    تركت فؤادي وهو بالبين رايعُ

    Then she said, while tears from her eye washed down her kohl:

    “You have left my heart frightened by parting.”

  4. وألقت على فيها اللثامَ وأدبرت

    وأقبل بالكحل السحيق المدامعُ

    And she cast the veil over her mouth and turned away,

    and her tear ducts streamed with finely ground kohl.