1. يا عَلوَ ثِقي فَبَينَنا الميثاقُ

    كَم حَلَّ عرى اِصطِباريَ الأَشواقُ

    O ʿAlw, have faith, for between us is the covenant.

    How often yearnings have loosened the bonds of my patience!

  2. ذا الفرعُ وَذا العارِضُ عَن ذكرهما

    لَم يُخلنيَ العَشيُّ وَالإِشراقُ

    These tresses and this cheek—from remembering them

    Neither evening nor sunrise has left me free.