عليلُone who is ill هوىlove ماnot أنemphatic particle لهُfor him منany معالجhealer
عليلُ هوى ما أن لهُ من معالج
سوىexcept رشفاتsips منfrom لمىdusky hue of the lips ريمgazelle عالجʿĀlij (place name)
سوى رشفات من لمى ريم عالج
One sick with love has no healer
A sickly passion is his, with no remedy
save sips from the dusky lips of a gazelle of ʿĀlij.
Save sips of tears from eyes whose cure he'd be.
دعواlet, all of you ليfor me علاجيmy treatment بالطّبيبby the physician وإنّماbut only
دعوا لي علاجي بالطّبيب وإنّما
علاجيmy cure فيin ثغرmouth الطّبيبthe physician المعالجthe healer
علاجي في ثغر الطّبيب المعالج
Let me be treated by the physician; yet
"Fetch me a doctor!" - yet my only cure
my cure lies only in the treating physician’s mouth.
Lies in the mouth of that physician demure.