1. مَواعيدُهُ بِالوَصلِ أَحلامُ نائِمٍ

    أُشبِّهُها بِالقَفرِ أَو بِسَرابِهِ

    His promises of union are a sleeper’s dreams;

    I liken them to the barren desert, or to its mirage.

  2. فَمَن لِي بِوَجهٍ لَو تَحَيَّر في الدُجى

    أَخُو سَفَرٍ في لَيلِ غَيمٍ سَرى بِهِ

    Who, then, can grant me a face by whose light, if lost in the darkness,

    a traveler on a cloudy night could make his way?