1. كَم تُكثِرانِ العَذلَ وَالتَفنِيدا

    أَفَتَحسَبانِ المُستَهامَ رَشيدا

    How often you two heap on reproach and censure!

    Do you two, then, think the love-crazed man sensible?

  2. أَضرَمتُما بِالعَذلِ بَينَ جَوانِحي

    ناراً أَحَرَّ مِنَ الجَحيمِ وَقُودا

    With reproach you two have kindled within my ribs

    a fire whose fuel burns hotter than Hell's.

  3. لَومٌ وَصَدٌّ يُؤلِمانِ أَخا الهَوى

    أَفَتَجمَعانِ مَلامَةً وَصُدُودا

    Blame and rejection both torment a lover;

    will you two, then, combine reproach and rejection?

  4. سَأَمُوتُ مِن بَعدِ الأَحِبَّةِ حَسرَةً

    وَأَخُو الهَوى إِن ماتَ مات شَهِيدا

    I shall die of grief after my loved ones have gone;

    and a lover, if he dies, dies a martyr.

  5. يا ظَبيَةَ السِربِ المُمَنَّعِ بِالقَنا

    رُدِّي عَلَيَّ فُؤادِيَ المَفقُودا

    O gazelle of the herd guarded by spears,

    give me back my lost heart.

  6. لَو كُنتِ جَرَّبتِ الهَوى وَشُجُونَهُ

    ما كانَ قَدُّكِ ناعِماً أُملُودا

    Had you experienced love and its sorrows,

    your figure would not be soft and supple.

  7. أَشبَهتِ في الجَوِّ الغَزالَةَ بَهجَةً

    وَحَكَيتِ في الدَوِّ الغَزالَةَ جِيدا

    In splendor you resembled the sun in the sky,

    and your neck mirrored the gazelle's in the desert.

  8. لَولا ظِباءُ بَني الشَريدِ لَما انثَنى

    طِيبُ الرُقادِ مِنَ الجُفونِ شَرِيدا

    But for the gazelles of Banū al-Sharīd, it would not have turned away—

    the sweetness of sleep, a fugitive from the eyelids.

  9. جَرَّدنَ مِن لَحَظاتِهِنَّ صَوارِماً

    وَجَعَلنَ حَبّاتِ القُلوبِ غُمُودا

    They unsheathed keen swords from their glances,

    and made the cores of hearts into sheaths.

  10. غِيدٌ حَنَنّا بَعدَهُنَّ عَلى الرُبى

    وَكَأَنَّنا نَهوى الرُبى لا الغِيدا

    Graceful maidens—after they were gone, we yearned upon the hills,

    and it was as though we loved the hills, not the maidens.