حجبوهُ عن عيني فباتتْ صبةٌ

حجبوهُ عن عيني فباتتْ صبةٌ

كيلا ترى في النومِ طيفَ خيالهِ

كيلا ترى في النومِ طيفَ خيالهِ

They hid him from my eye, so it spent the night lovesick,

They hid him from my eyes, so my eyelids became sleepless,

lest it see in sleep the phantom of his image.

Lest they see his phantom image in dreams,

وبقيتُ يعذلني المنامُ بصدِّهِ

وبقيتُ يعذلني المنامُ بصدِّهِ

ويسومني التبريحُ في إذلالهِ

ويسومني التبريحُ في إذلالهِ

And I remained, while sleep reproached me by shunning me,

And I remained; dreams torment me by repelling him,

and torment oppressed me as it humbled me.

And wakefulness afflicts me by humiliating me in his absence,

يا رحمتا للصبِّ فيما نابهُ

يا رحمتا للصبِّ فيما نابهُ

حتى كرى جفنيهِ من عذالِهِ

حتى كرى جفنيهِ من عذالِهِ

O pity for the lovesick man in what has befallen him!

Oh what pity for passion in what has afflicted me!

Even the slumber of his eyelids is among his reproachers.

Until my eyelids grew weary of his torment.