1. بَينَ المُزَرَّدِ وَالمُوَرَّد

    أَصبَحتُ ذا قَلبٍ مُشَرَّد

    Between the chain-patterned and the rose-red,

    I have become a man with a scattered heart.

  2. جاوَزتُ قَيساً في الصَبا

    بَةِ وَالهَوى وَاللَهُ يَشهَد

    I have surpassed Qays in ardent

    love and passion—and God bears witness.

  3. وَيلاهُ مِن مُقَلٍ أبِي

    تُ بِقَتلِها أَبَداً مُهَدَّد

    Alas for those eyes! I spend

    the night forever threatened with death by them.

  4. أَنا صاحِبُ الجَفنِ القَري

    ح عَلَيكَ وَالطَرفِ المُسَهَّد

    I am the one whose eyelid is

    sore because of you, and whose eye is sleepless.