1. نم فقد وكلت بي الأرقا

    لاهيا بعدي بمن عشقا

    Sleep, for you have set sleeplessness over me,

    toying, in my absence, with one who loved you.

  2. إنما أبقيت من بدني

    شبحا غير الذي خلقا

    All you have left of my body

    is a phantom unlike what was created.

  3. كنت كالنقصان في قمر

    ما خفى منه الذي اتسقا

    I was like the waning of a moon;

    its hidden part was what had once waxed full.

  4. وفتى ناداك من كرب

    أشعلت أحشاؤه حرقا

    And a youth called to you in anguish,

    his innards set ablaze with burning pangs.

  5. غرقت في الدمع مقلته

    فدعا إنسانها الغرقا

    His eye drowned in tears,

    so its pupil cried out, 'Drowning!'

  6. إنما عاقبت ناظره

    إذا أعاد الطرف مسترقا

    You punished his eye only

    when he stole another glance.

  7. ما لمن نمت محاسنه

    ان يعادي طرف من رمقا

    One whose charms have blossomed has no right

    to be hostile to the gaze of one who gazed.

  8. لك ان تبدي لنا حسنا

    ولنا ان نعمل الحدقا

    Yours is the right to show us beauty,

    and ours to put our eyes to work.

  9. قدحت كفاك زند هوى

    في سواد القلب فاحترقا

    Your two hands struck love's fire-stick

    in the heart's black core, so it caught fire.