1. تيممت دارا بالصعيد تضمني

    وما زال قلبي غائبا داره الثغر

    I sought a dwelling in Upper Egypt to shelter me.

    And my heart is still away; the port is its home.

  2. وما شاقني بالثغر غير وإنما

    أردت أرى وجها يشاكله البدر

    And nothing else in the port stirred my longing; I only

    wished to see a face that the full moon resembles.

  3. وأدفع عن نفسي بتاريخ وحشة

    أصاب بها من مهجتي البلد القفر

    And with a chronicle I rid myself of the loneliness

    with which the desolate land has wounded my very soul.

  4. لئن غبت عنكم فالفؤاد بساحكم

    وان بت عنكم صامتا نطق الشعر

    Even if I am absent from you, my heart is in your courtyard;

    and if I spend the night away from you in silence, poetry speaks.