1. سائِل بطيفك عن لَيلي وعن سهري

    وعن تتابُعِ أنفاسي وعن فكري

    Ask through your dream-phantom about my night and my sleeplessness,

    And about my successive breaths, and about my thoughts.

  2. لم يخل قلبي من ذكراك اذ نظرت

    عيني اليك على صحوي ولا سكري

    My heart was never without remembrance of you when

    My eye looked toward you, whether sober or drunk.

  3. سقياً ليوم سروري إذا تنازعني

    صفو المدامة بين الأنس والخفر

    May rain bless my day of joy, when I was drawn to and fro

    By pure wine, between intimacy and bashfulness.

  4. وفضلُ كأسك يأتيني فأشربه

    جهراً وتشرب كأسي غير مستترِ

    And what remains in your cup comes to me, and I drink it

    Openly, and you drink from my cup without hiding.

  5. وكيف أشمِلُه لثمي وألُزِمُه

    نحري وترفعه كفِّي الى بصري

    And how I envelop it in my kisses and press it

    To my upper chest, while my palm lifts it before my eyes.

  6. فيت مُدَّة يومي إذ مضى سلفاً

    كانت ومدَّة أيامي على قدرِ

    [Would that] the span of my day, already gone by,

    Had equaled the span of all my days,

  7. حتى إذا ما انطوت عنا بشاشته

    صرنا جميعاً كذا جارين في الحفرِ

    So that, when its cheerfulness was folded away from us,

    We would thus become neighbors together in the graves.