1. أشرقت في الدجى شموس التلاقي

    فمحا ضوؤها ظلامَ الفراقِ

    The suns of reunion shone in the darkness.

    Their light erased the darkness of parting.

  2. بيد أن التي يَسُمُّ هواها

    لا تداوي بريقها الدرياقي

    Yet she whose love poisons

    does not heal with her antidotal saliva.

  3. أشغلت خاطري وأشعل قلبي

    حبها وابتعادها عن رواقي

    She occupied my thoughts; my heart was set ablaze

    by love for her and her distance from my pavilion.

  4. ما احتيالي وما رأيت مهاة

    حننت قلبَها دموع المآقي

    What recourse have I? Never have I seen an oryx

    whose heart was softened by tears from the eyes' corners.

  5. أيد اللَهُ دولة الأعين السو

    د بإذلال دولة العشاق

    May God uphold the dominion of black eyes

    by humbling the dominion of lovers.