1. يا مُمْرِضَ الجِسْمِ مِنِّي عِنْدَ صِحَّتِهِ

    هَبْ لِي عَلى طُولِ ما أَفْنى عَلَيْكَ بَقَا

    O you who make my body sick when it is healthy,

    Grant me life for all the time I waste away over you.

  2. وَمَنْ تَعَشَّقَ جِسْمِي سُقْمَ ناظِرِهِ

    لَمَّا رَآهُ لِسُقْمِي فِيهِ قَدْ عَشِقا

    And you whose eye's languor my body adored,

    When it saw that languor had fallen in love with my body's sickness.

  3. أَغْرَيْتَ بِالسُّقْمِ حَتَّى إِذْ غُرِيتُ بِهِ

    كأَنَّ سُقْمِيَ مِنْ جَفْنَيْكَ قَدْ خُلِقا

    You made me love sickness until, once I grew enamored of it,

    It was as though my sickness had been created from your eyelids.