1. يا أيّها المعرضُ الذي رَقَدَتْ

    أجفانُهُ عن سهاد أجفاني

    O you who turn away, whose slumbering

    Eyelids are heedless of my eyelids’ sleeplessness.

  2. للسحرِ عَيْنٌ سبحانَ خالقِها

    وأنتَ من خَلْقِهِ بها رانِ

    Enchantment has an eye—glory be to its Creator!

    And you, among His creatures, gaze with it.

  3. يا ثانيَ البَدْرِ في تَكامُلِهِ

    ها أنا في القَسْمِ للسُّها ثانِ

    O counterpart of the full moon in its perfection,

    Here I am, in the allotment, a counterpart to Suhā.