1. أمن ذِكر لَيلى قَد تَعاوَدَني التِبل

    عَلى حينِ شاب الرَأسِ وَاِستَوسَق العَقل

    Is it remembrance of Layla that has brought back my lovesickness,

    now that my head has turned gray and my reason has ripened?

  2. لعمرك ما أَدري عَلى ان حُبَّها

    يَزيد عَلى ما كانَ عِندي لَها قَبل

    By your life, I do not know—though my love for her

    grows beyond the love I felt for her before—

  3. أثابَ اليَّ الحِلمُ فَاِزدَدت عَولَة

    ثَنَتني لَها أم لا يُفارِقُني الجَهل

    whether sound judgment has returned to me, and my lament has deepened,

    turning me back to her—or whether folly never leaves me.