1. زار الخيالُ بخيلاً مثلَ مُرسلهِ

    فما شَفاني منه الضمُّ والقبل

    The phantom visited, miserly like its sender.

    So neither its embrace nor its kisses healed me.

  2. ما زارني قطٌُ إلاَّ كيْ يواقفني

    على الرُّقاد فينفيهِ ويرتحلُ

    It never visited me except to confront me

    About slumber, then banish it and depart.

  3. وما درى أنَّ نومي حيلةٌ نصبتْ

    لوصلهِ حين أعيْا اليقظةَ الحِيلُ

    And it did not know that my sleep was a stratagem laid

    For union with it, when stratagems had exhausted wakefulness.