1. حَسبي بِما قَد لَقيتُ يا عُمَرُ

    لَم يَأتِني عَن حَبيبَتي خَبَرُ

    Enough of what I have suffered, O ʿUmar!

    No news of my beloved has reached me.

  2. شَهرٌ وَشَهرانِ مَرَّ قَبلَهُما

    شَهرانِ مُرّانِ مِنهُما صَفَرُ

    A month and two months have passed, preceded by

    Two bitter months, one of them Safar.

  3. يا لَيتَ شِعري ماتَت فَأَندُبُها

    أَم أَحدَثَت صاحِباً فَأَنتَحِرُ

    If only I knew: has she died, that I might mourn her,

    Or taken a new lover, that I might kill myself?

  4. لا عَهدَ لي بالرَسولِ يُخبِرُني

    عَنها فَنَفسي مِن ذاكَ تَستَعرُ

    I have had no contact with the messenger who tells me

    Of her; at this my soul is ablaze.

  5. بَكَيتُ مِن حُبِّ مَن يُباعِدُني

    شوقاً وَما بي ضَنىً وَلا كِبَرُ

    I have wept for love of one who keeps me at a distance,

    Out of longing, not from sickness or old age.

  6. هَل مِن سَبيلٍ إِلى زِيارَتِها

    أَم هَل لِما بي مِن حُبِّها غِيَرُ

    Is there any way to visit her,

    Or can the love I bear her ever change?

  7. ضاقَت عَلَيَّ البِلادُ إِذ هَجَرَت

    فَالعيشُ مُرٌّ وَمَشرَبي كَدِرُ

    The lands closed in upon me when she forsook me;

    So life is bitter, and my drink is murky.

  8. أَكادُ مِن زَفرَةٍ تُباكِرُني

    أَطيرُ في الطَيرِ حينَ تَبتَكِرُ

    From a sigh that greets me at dawn, I almost

    Fly among the birds as they set out early.

  9. فَقُلتُ وَالنَفسُ في صَبابَتِها

    تَهفو وَقَلبي لَهفانُ لا يَقِرُ

    So I said, while my soul, in its yearning,

    Fluttered, and my anguished heart could not be still:

  10. إِن يَرجِعِ اللَهُ لي مَوَدَّتَها

    فَكُلُّ شَيءٍ سِواهُ مُحتَقَرُ

    If God restores her affection to me,

    Then everything else counts for nothing.

  11. يا طولَ شَوقي إِلى عُبَيدَةَ قَد

    أَنزَفتُ دَمعي وَشَفَّني السَهَرُ

    Oh, how long I have yearned for ʿUbayda! I have

    Drained my tears, and sleeplessness has worn me thin.

  12. أَبكي عَلى وَصلِها وَأَذكُرُهُ

    وَما يَرُدُّ البُكاءُ وَالذِكَرُ

    I weep for union with her and remember it;

    But what can weeping and memories bring back?

  13. وَاللَهِ مالي عِلمٌ بِما صَنَعَت

    وَلا أَتاني مِن أَهلِها بَشَرُ

    By God, I do not know what she has done,

    Nor has anyone from her family come to me,

  14. كَأَنَّما سُوِّيَ الحَزينُ بِهِم

    لَم يَبقَ مِنهُم عَينٌ وَلا أَثَرُ

    As though the rough ground had been leveled over them:

    Not one of them remains, nor any trace.

  15. يا صاحِ قَد أَمسَكَت رِسالَتَها

    فَاِجمَع حَنوطي حَتّام تَنتَظِرُ

    O friend, she has withheld her letter;

    So gather my burial spices—how long will you wait?

  16. لا أَستَطيعُ الهَوى وَهِجرَتَها

    قَلبي ضَعيفٌ وَقَلبُها حَجَرُ

    I cannot bear both love and her desertion;

    My heart is weak, and her heart is stone.

  17. كَأَنَّ وَجدي بِها وَقَد حَجَبت

    في الرَأسِ وَالعَينِ وَالحَشا سَكَرُ

    It is as though my longing for her, now she has hidden herself,

    Were drunkenness in my head, my eye, and my core.