1. بَاكِيَاتُ الغَمَام

    ضَاحِكَاتُ الكِمَام

    Weeping clouds,

    Smiling buds,

  2. وَهُبُوبُ التَّنَسُّمِ

    مَع ساجِعَاتِ الحَمَام

    And the stirring of the breeze,

    With the cooing doves.

  3. بِأَبَارِيقَ رُكَّع

    مُستَقبِلاَتِ الكُؤُوس

    With ewers bowing,

    Facing the cups,

  4. سَاجِدَاتٍ وَتُرفَع

    نَحوَ السَّمَا بالرّؤُوس

    Prostrate, and raised,

    With their heads toward the sky.

  5. وَشَيء مِن ذَاكَ أبدَع

    بَدرٌ يُضِي كَالشُّمُوس

    And something more wondrous than that:

    A full moon shining like suns,

  6. طَالِعٌ بِالتَّمَام

    يُجلي جُنحَ الظَّلاَم

    Rising in its fullness,

    Dispelling the gathering darkness,

  7. كالقَضِيبِ المُنَعَّم

    يَهتَزّ بَينَ الأكَام

    Like a tender bough,

    Swaying among the hillocks.

  8. وَبِفَرقِ الذوَايِب

    وَصُبحِ ذَاكَ الجَبِينِ

    And by the parting of the tresses,

    And the dawn of that brow,

  9. وَدَبِيبِ العَقَارِب

    وأفسَدَت أمرَ دِينِي

    And the creeping of the scorpions—

    And they have ruined my faith—

  10. يَا طَبِيبَ السِّقَام

    يَا حَيَاةَ الأنَام

    O healer of sickness,

    O life of humankind,

  11. رَبّ عيسَى بنِ مَريَم

    مُحيِي رُفَاةِ الرّمَام

    Lord of Jesus, son of Mary,

    Reviver of crumbled, decayed bones.

  12. لَو هَدَانِي رَشَادِي

    لَقُلتُ حَسبِيَ مُوسَى

    Had my good sense guided me,

    I would have said, 'Moses is enough for me.'

  13. مِنكَ صَحّ اعتِمَادِي

    يَا ذَا الغَزَال الأَنُوسَا

    My trust in you has proved sound,

    O you gentle gazelle.

  14. وأنادي وأنادي

    لقّان دهري عبوسا

    And I call, and I call:

    My fate has brought me a scowling one.

  15. مَا يُفِيدُ اكتَتام

    وَبَلَغتُ الحِمَام

    What use is concealment,

    When I have reached death?

  16. نَومُ عَينِي مُحَرّم

    بِالله فاقصِر مَلاَم

    Sleep is forbidden to my eye;

    By God, cease your reproach.