1. آليتُ في حبّكِ رعيَ العهدِ

    حتى أبيت هامةً في لحدي

    I swore, in loving you, to keep the covenant,

    Until I lie, a skull, within my grave.

  2. جعلتُ نفسي لكِ وَقفاً عندي

    وَما أراكِ تحفظين ودِّي

    For my part, I have made myself an endowment for you,

    Yet I do not see you preserving my affection.

  3. فداكِ أُمي وَأبي وَنفسي

    يا أَملي وَوَحشتي وَأُنسي

    May my mother, my father, and my soul be your ransom,

    O my hope, my loneliness, and my solace.

  4. كم ذا لقيت من شقا وَنحسِ

    كي تظهري يوماً بمجلى السعد

    How much misery and ill fortune I have met,

    So that one day you might appear in good fortune's radiance.

  5. قلبي بغيرِ حبكمْ ما خَفقَا

    وَناظري لولاكمُ ما أَرقا

    My heart has never beaten for any love but yours,

    And but for you, my eye would never have known sleeplessness.

  6. فاستبقِ صبّاً قد رأَى فَوَمَقا

    لا تجدين صادقاً من بعدي

    So spare a lovesick man who saw you and fell in love;

    You will find no one sincere after me.

  7. ماذا عسى الزلفى التي ترضيكِ

    وَراءَ حبي وَهيامي فيك

    What offering could possibly please you,

    Beyond my love and my consuming passion for you?

  8. إن كان بذل مهجةٍ تفديك

    فاحتكي ليس له من ردِّ

    If a life's sacrifice would ransom you,

    Then command it [reading uncertain]—there can be no refusal.

  9. عجبتُ بالصدِّ وَبالجفاءِ

    حائدة عن سننِ الوفاء

    I marveled at your rejection and coldness,

    As you turned aside from the paths of fidelity.

  10. هلمَّ نقض العمرَ باللقاء

    فالموتُ فاضٍ بيننا بالصدِّ

    Come, let us spend our lifetime in union,

    For death judges between us through rejection [reading uncertain].

  11. لا تعذلي عَلى البكا والحزنِ

    فبعض ما بي من هواك يضني

    Do not reproach me for weeping and grief,

    For even a little of my love for you wastes me away.

  12. ما أخذ العشّاقُ إلاّ عني

    فما عليكِ إن بكيتِ جدِّي

    Lovers have learned only from me;

    So what would it cost you to weep for my lot?

  13. عينايَ جودا بالدموعِ الهاميهْ

    وَبرِّدا جذوَةَ شوقٍ واريهْ

    My eyes, pour forth streaming tears,

    And cool the glowing ember of longing.

  14. لم يبق مني غير دمعي باقيه

    تعدي عَلى جورِ الهوى أو تجدي

    No remnant of me remains except my tears,

    To aid me against passion's tyranny, or bring relief.

  15. كأنني وَبتُّ تحت التربِ

    بعندليبِ فوق غصنٍ رطب

    I seem, as I lie beneath the earth,

    To behold a nightingale upon a tender bough,

  16. هيَّجه منظرُ قبرِ الصبِّ

    فظلَّ يبكي من قضى بالوجد

    Stirred by the sight of the lovesick lover's grave,

    So it kept weeping for the one who died of longing.

  17. ضيَّعتِ ضيَّعتِ وَكنتُ الوافيا

    فَلْيَكُ روض العيشِ بعدي حاليا

    You forsook me, forsook me, though I was the faithful one.

    Then let life's garden be sweet after me.

  18. لبَّيتِ غيري إذْ أتى مناديا

    ما ليَ عن وِردِ الردى من بدّ

    You answered another when he came calling;

    I have no escape from going down to the waters of death.

  19. أقول والنفس أسى تفيضُ

    والجفن من سكر الرَّدى غضيض

    I say, while my soul ebbs away in sorrow,

    And my eyelid droops with death's intoxication:

  20. أَمستْ حياتي ماؤها يفيض

    في ذمةِ الحبِّ شهيد البُعد

    My life—its water now spills away—

    In love's keeping, a martyr to separation.