1. مني السلامُ على من لو تصافحها

    يد النسيم أحست غمز آلامي

    My greetings to her—were her hand clasped by

    The breeze's hand, it would feel the pinch of my pains.

  2. مرت على الورد في الأكمام فارتعشت

    أسى وقالت أهذا قلبه الدامي

    She passed by the roses in their calyxes and trembled

    In sorrow, and said, "Is this his bleeding heart?"

  3. وأبصرت غصناً ظمآن منطرحاً

    فما رأت فيه إلا بعض أسقامي

    And she saw a thirsty branch lying prostrate,

    So she saw in it nothing but some of my ailments.

  4. وتسمع الطير صداحاً بأيكته

    يشكو فتسمع في شكواه أنغامي

    And she hears the bird singing in its grove;

    It laments, and in its lament she hears my melodies.

  5. حقيقة الحب فيها ثم تظهر لي

    كأنني عالق منها بأوهام

    The reality of love is in her, yet she appears to me

    As though I were clinging to illusions of her.

  6. يا للعجيبة للمرآة أنظرها

    ولا أراني فيها وهي قدامي

    How strange the mirror I look upon,

    Yet I do not see myself in it, though it is before me.

  7. يا أخت شمس كلون الخد مشرقة

    وأخت بدر كنور الوجه بسام

    O sister of a sun radiant as the cheek's hue,

    And sister of a full moon beaming like the face's light,

  8. ما كنت مثلهما إلا لتبتسمي

    على ليالي في حبي وأيامي

    You were like them both only to smile

    Upon my nights and days in love.