1. إِعتادَ قَلبَكَ مِن حَبيبك عيدُهُ

    شَوقٌ عَراكَ فَأَنتَ عَنهُ تَذودُهُ

    Your beloved's recurring visitation has returned to your heart:

    a longing that has seized you, which you drive from your heart.

  2. وَالشَوقُ قَد غَلَبَ الفُؤادَ فَقادَهُ

    وَالشَوقُ يَغلِبُ ذا الهَوى فَيَقودُهُ

    And longing has overcome the heart and led it,

    and longing overcomes the lover and leads him.

  3. في دارِ مَرّارٍ غَزالُ كَنيسَةٍ

    عَطِرٌ عَلَيهِ خُزوزُهُ وَبُرودُهُ

    In Marrār's house is a gazelle of the church,

    perfumed, with his silk-and-wool robes and striped cloaks upon him.

  4. ريمٌ أَغَرُّ كَأَنَّهُ مِن حُسنِهِ

    صَنَمٌ يَحُجُّ بِبَيعَةٍ مَعبودُهُ

    A white gazelle, bright-browed, who in his beauty seems

    an idol whose god makes pilgrimage in a church.

  5. عَيناهُ عَينا جُؤذُرٍ بِصَريمَةٍ

    وَلَهُ مِنَ الظَبيِ المُرَبَّبِ جيدُهُ

    His eyes are those of a wild-ox calf in a thicket,

    and his neck is that of a hand-reared gazelle.

  6. ما ضَرَّ عَثمَةَ أَن تُلِمَّ بِعاشِقٍ

    دَنِفِ الفُوادِ مُتَيَّمٍ فَتَعودُهُ

    What harm would it do ʿAthma to call upon a lover,

    heartsick and enslaved by love, and tend him,

  7. وَتَلُدُّهُ مِن ريقِها فَلَرُبَّما

    نَفَعَ السَقيمَ مِنَ السِقامِ لَدودُهُ

    and dose him with her saliva? For often

    a sick man's medicine has relieved him of illness.