1. لواحظُكَ التي تُصمي البرايا

    سهامٌ حاجباكَ لها حنايا

    Your glances, which slay humankind,

    are arrows; your brows are their bows.

  2. إذا أَوترتَها ورميتَ عنها

    بهذا فالقُلوبُ هيَ الرَّمايا

    When you string them and shoot from them,

    in this way, it is hearts that are the targets.

  3. ملكتَ بَعذلٍ قدِّك كلَّ رامٍ

    وذاكَ العَدلُ جَورُ في الرَّعايا

    You have mastered every archer with your stature's reproach,

    and that justice is injustice to the subjects.

  4. وولَّيتَ الغَرامَ على فُؤادي

    فلا أَشقَى الإِلهُ به سوايا

    And you have appointed passion ruler over my heart;

    so may God make no one but me suffer through it.

  5. بِوُدِّي لو أتاني منكَ طيفٌ

    يُخفَّفُ ما أكابدُ من بلايا

    I wish a dream-vision from you would come to me,

    so the afflictions I endure might be eased,

  6. لأَبسُطَ تحتَ أخمصِهِ خُدودي

    وأفرِشَ من حشايَ له حَشايا

    that I might lay my cheeks beneath the arch of its foot,

    and spread cushions for it from my entrails.

  7. ولا وهَواك ما هذا التَّجنَّي

    ولا هذا الجَفا إِلاَّ مَنايا

    No, by your love, this unjust treatment

    and this coldness are nothing but deaths.

  8. يسيلُ إِذا ضحكتَ سحابُ دمعي

    فذاكَ اللَّمعُ من بَرقِ الثَّنايا

    When you laugh, the cloud of my tears pours down;

    for that gleam comes from the lightning of your front teeth.

  9. بِغَيرِ الهَجرِ هدِّدني فإنيِّ

    أراهُ أجلَّ أصنافِ الرَّزايا

    Threaten me with anything but abandonment, for I

    regard it as the gravest of all kinds of calamity.

  10. عدوُّكَ عيشُه عيشي ومِثلي

    يُقاسي الُمرَّيا حلوَ السَّجايا

    May your enemy live my life and, like me,

    endure bitterness, O sweet-natured one.