1. يَبكى بِجهركَ مدنَفٌ محزونُ

    لم يدرِ حينَ صددتَ كيفَ يكونُ

    A lovesick, sorrowful man weeps at your speaking openly.

    When you turned away, he did not know what would become of him.

  2. سترَ الهوى وأسرَّ شدةَ شوقهِ

    فكلاهُما بينٌ وذاكَ مصونُ

    He concealed his love and kept the intensity of his longing secret.

    So both are evident, and that remains guarded.

  3. لا تخذلي عينيه يا عبراتِهِ

    لمعينِ من أهوى عليهِ عُيونُ

    Do not forsake his eyes, O tears of his.

    There are eyes upon the flowing spring of the one I love.

  4. لم لا تدورُ بكامنٍ في قلبهِ

    حَركاتُ شوقٍ ما لهنَّ سُكونُ

    Why do they not circle around what lies hidden in his heart—

    Stirrings of longing that never come to rest?