1. يا طائِرَ البانِ قَد هَيَّجتَ أَشجاني

    وَزِدتَني طَرَباً يا طائِرَ البانِ

    O bird of the moringa tree, you have stirred my sorrows.

    And heightened my unrest, O bird of the moringa tree.

  2. إِن كُنتَ تَندُبُ إِلفاً قَد فُجِعتَ بِهِ

    فَقَد شَجاكَ الَّذي بِالبَينِ أَشجاني

    If you lament a companion whose loss has stricken you,

    Then what grieved me through parting has grieved you.

  3. زِدني مِنَ النَوحِ وَاِسعِدني عَلى حَزَني

    حَتّى تَرى عَجَباً مِن فَيضِ أَجفاني

    Give me more lamentation, and join me in my grief,

    Until you see a marvel in the flood from my eyelids.

  4. وَقِف لِتَنظُرَ ما بي لا تَكُن عَجِلاً

    وَاِحذَر لِنَفسِكَ مِن أَنفاسِ نيراني

    And pause to see what ails me; do not be hasty.

    And beware, for your own sake, of the breaths of my fires.

  5. وَطِر لَعَلَّكَ في أَرضِ الحِجازِ تَرى

    رَكباً عَلى عالِجٍ أَو دونَ نَعمانِ

    And fly; perhaps in the land of the Hijaz you will see

    A caravan at ʿĀlij, or this side of Nuʿmān,

  6. يَسري بِجارِيَةٍ تَنهَلُّ أَدمُعُها

    شَوقاً إِلى وَطَنٍ ناءٍ وَجيرانِ

    Traveling by night with a young woman whose tears stream

    Out of longing for a far-off homeland and neighbors.

  7. ناشَدتُكَ اللَهَ يا طَيرَ الحَمامِ إِذا

    رَأَيتَ يَوماً حُمولَ القَومِ فَاِنعاني

    I adjure you by God, O dove: when

    You see the people's litter-bearing camels one day, announce my death,

  8. وَقُل طَريحاً تَرَكناهُ وَقَد فَنِيَت

    دُموعُهُ وَهوَ يَبكي بِالدَمِ القاني

    And say: 'We left him prostrate; already spent were

    His tears, while he wept crimson blood.'