1. مدمع الصبّ سائلُ

    هل فتى عنه سائلُ

    The lovelorn one's tears are flowing.

    Is there a youth who asks after him?

  2. ومُنى القلب في الهوى

    هل إليه وسائل

    And what the heart desires in love—

    are there ways to reach it?

  3. بي غزوال إذا خطر

    ترك الروح في خطر

    I am smitten with a gazelle who, when he saunters,

    leaves the soul in danger.

  4. بالجفا ذو سماحة

    وهو بالوصل باخل

    He is generous with estrangement,

    yet miserly with union.

  5. وَجدُه بي لابث

    وهو بالقلب عابث

    Longing for him abides within me,

    while he toys with my heart.

  6. لشَمول بثغره

    أسكرتني شمائل

    Through the wine within his mouth,

    his charms have made me drunk.

  7. نصب الهجر جازماً

    بانكساري مُلازماً

    He imposed estrangement, certain

    of my breaking, unrelenting.

  8. واصطباري على النوى

    رفعته العوامل

    And my patience through separation—

    the governing forces have lifted it away.

  9. يا هلالاً تكمّلا

    صار بدراً مُكمّلا

    O crescent that has grown complete,

    and become a perfect full moon,

  10. لك قلبي من الورى

    مع طرفي منازل

    for you, among mankind, my heart

    and my gaze are dwelling places.

  11. قرّح الجفن ما جرى

    وكفاني الذي جرى

    What flowed has made my eyelid raw,

    and what has flowed suffices me:

  12. من طليق مُسلسل

    وهو هامٍ وهاملُ

    tears unbound, yet linked in chains,

    streaming and pouring down.

  13. يا غزالاً إذا غزل

    طرفه لي حلا الغزل

    O gazelle, when he woos

    with his glance, love poetry grows sweet to me.

  14. ابن سودون مدحه

    وافر فيك كامل

    Ibn Sudun's praise

    of you is abundant and complete.