1. أَحمَى الهَوى قَلبَهُ وَأَوقَد

    فَهوَ عَلَى أَن يَموتَ أَوقَد

    Love heated his heart and set it ablaze;

    so, though he is dying, he burns still fiercer.

  2. وَقالَ عَنهُ العَذولُ سالٍ

    قَلَّدَهُ اللَّهُ ما تَقَلَّد

    And the reproacher said of him, “He loves no longer.”

    May God burden him with what he has taken upon himself!

  3. وَبِاللوى شَادِنٌ عَلَيهِ

    جيدُ غَزالٍ وَوَجهُ فَرقَد

    And at al-Liwā is a fawn who bears

    a gazelle’s neck and the face of Farqad.

  4. أَسكَرَهُ ريقُهُ بِخَمرٍ

    حَتّى اِنتَشَى طَرفُهُ فَعَربَد

    His saliva intoxicated him with wine,

    until his gaze grew tipsy and ran riot.

  5. لا تَعجَبوا لانهِزامِ طَرفي

    فَجَيشُ أَجفانِهِ مُؤَيَّد

    Do not marvel at my gaze’s defeat,

    for the army of his eyelids is reinforced.

  6. أَنا لَهُ كَالَّذِي تَمَنَّى

    عَبدٌ نَعَم عَبدُهُ وَأَزيَد

    I am to him just what he wished:

    a slave—yes, his slave, and more.

  7. لَهُ عَلَيَّ اِمتِثَالُ أَمرٍ

    وَلي عَلَيهِ الحَفاءُ وَالصَّد

    His due from me is obedience to his command;

    and my due from him is coldness and rejection.

  8. إِن بَسمَلَت عَينُهُ لِقَتلي

    صَلَّى فُؤادي عَلى مُحَمَّد

    If his eye invokes God’s name to kill me,

    my heart sends blessings upon Muhammad.