1. يا أملي قد حانَ أن تعطِفا

    أما تراني ناحِلاً مدنَفا

    O my hope, the time has come for you to show kindness.

    Do you not see me wasted and gravely ill?

  2. أبكي على جسمٍ تَعمدته

    بالسقمِ لم يصبح له مُنصِفا

    I weep over a body you have deliberately afflicted

    With sickness, with no fairness shown to it.

  3. وسائلٍ لي من منحتَ الهوى

    فقلتُ أهوى الغنجَ الأهيفا

    And someone asked me, 'To whom have you given your love?'

    So I said, 'I love the coquettish, slender-waisted one,

  4. من يحسنُ الوجدُ بهِ والهوى

    له ولا يحسنُ أن يسعِفا

    For whom longing is fitting, as is love

    For him—yet it does not befit him to offer relief.'