1. ألفتِ الدمعَ أيتها الجفونُ

    وسهدكِ التذكرُ والحنينُ

    You have grown accustomed to tears, O eyelids,

    And remembrance and longing have kept you sleepless.

  2. فإن أسهِدتِ شَوقاً من فؤادٍ

    يُجيبُ دعاءَ زفرتهِ الأنينُ

    So if you are kept sleepless by longing from a heart

    Whose sigh's call is answered by moaning,

  3. أمنيهِ الافاقة كل يومٍ

    وأعلمُ أن ذلك لا يَكونُ

    I offer it hope of recovery every day,

    And I know that this will not be.

  4. وأختل ما بهِ عَنِّي فتأبَى

    سقامٌ لا ترقُّ ولا تلينُ

    And I try to beguile its pain away from me, but they refuse—

    Ailing eyelids that neither pity nor relent.