فؤاد بين هجران وبين

فؤاد بين هجران وبين

قضى أمد الحياة بفرقتينِ

قضى أمد الحياة بفرقتينِ

A heart between abandonment and parting

My heart between estrangement and unity

Spent the span of life in two separations.

Has spent the course of life in two separations

قضى أو كاد لولا زور طيف

قضى أو كاد لولا زور طيف

غفت عين السهاد فزار عيني

غفت عين السهاد فزار عيني

It would have perished—or nearly so—but for a phantom's visit.

It did spend or it nearly did, had not the apparition of his phantom

The eye of sleeplessness dozed, so it visited my eye.

Visited my eyes when sleep visited his eyes

ظفرت بلثم راحته وراحي

ظفرت بلثم راحته وراحي

وفزت من الوصال براحتين

وفزت من الوصال براحتين

I won a kiss of his palm and my own ease,

I attained the kiss of his cheek and my solace

And through union gained two comforts.

And won from the union two comforts