1. كَلامٌ كَمِثلِ الدُرّ تَنثرُهُ نَثراً

    وَوَصلٌ كَظِلِّ الرَوض تُعطيكَهُ نَزرا

    Words like pearls that she scatters about;

    And union like a garden’s shade, which she grants you sparingly.

  2. وَلَو لَم تَشُب وَصلي بِهَجرٍ لَخِلتَني

    أُشافِهُ مِنها الشَمسَ أَو أَلثُمُ البَدرا

    And had she not mingled my union with estrangement, you would have thought me

    Conversing face to face with the sun in her, or kissing the full moon.