مضى الثُّلثان من ليل التَّمامِ

مضى الثُّلثان من ليل التَّمامِ

ولم تغمُضْ جُفُونِي بِالمَنَام

ولم تغمُضْ جُفُونِي بِالمَنَام

Two-thirds of the longest night have passed,

Two-thirds of the night of perfection has passed,

Yet my eyelids have not closed in sleep.

yet sleep has not shut my eyelids with slumber.

وطرفي في المنامِ إِذَا أَتاهُ

وطرفي في المنامِ إِذَا أَتاهُ

وَوَاتَاهُ كَسَمْعِي والمَلاَمِ

وَوَاتَاهُ كَسَمْعِي والمَلاَمِ

My eye, with sleep—when sleep comes to it

My eyes in sleep, when it comes upon them,

And obliges it—is like my ear with reproach.

pass by it like my hearing and blame.