1. لَعَمرُكَ ما ميعادُ عَينِكِ وَالبُكا

    بِلَيلاكِ إِلّا أَن تَهُبَّ جَنوبُ

    By your life, your eye has no tryst with weeping

    for your Layla, save when a south wind blows.

  2. يُعاشِرُني في الدارِ مَن لا أَوَدُّهُ

    وَفي الرَحلِ مَهجورٌ إِلَيَّ حَبيبُ

    One I do not love lives with me in the house;

    and in the camp is one forsaken, dear to me.

  3. إِذا هَبَّ عُلوِيُّ الرِياحِ وَجَدتُني

    كَأَنّي لِعُلوِيِّ الرِياحِ نَسيبُ

    When the wind from the uplands blows, I find myself

    as though I were kin to the wind from the uplands.