1. عاقِب بما شئتَ سوى الهجر

    واغلق رضا قلبك عن غَدْري

    Punish me as you wish, except with abandonment.

    And withhold your heart's favor from my treachery.

  2. أليس قد رُحتُ على كلّ ذا

    أجولُ في سرّك والجهر

    Have I not, despite all this, gone

    Roaming through your secrets and what you reveal?

  3. جدِّد ولو بالسوءِ ذِكرى فما

    أحِبّ أن تنفكّ عن ذكري

    Renew remembrance, even with ill words, for I do not

    Wish you to cease remembering me.

  4. يا من أرى ذلّيَ في حبّه

    أحلى من الفُسْحة في العمر

    O you, in loving whom I find my abasement

    Sweeter than a longer span of life;

  5. ومن إذا شبّهته لم أَجِد

    لوجهه شِبْهاً سوى البدر

    And you, when I compare you, I find no

    Likeness for your face save the full moon.

  6. سَلْ لحظَ عينيك وتفتيرَه

    إن كان لي شيء من الصبر

    Ask the glance of your eyes and its languor

    Whether I have any patience at all.

  7. كأنّ فكري لك دوني فما

    أَقدِر أَن تَسقُط من فكري

    It is as though my thoughts were yours, not mine, for I do not

    Have the power to let you fall from my thoughts.