1. بِيَ اليأَسُ أَوْ داءُ الهُيامِ شَرِبْتُهُ

    فَإيّاكَ عنّي لا يَكُنْ بكَ ما بِيا

    Despair afflicts me—or the malady of love-madness, which I have drunk.

    So beware of me, lest what afflicts me afflict you.

  2. فما زادَني النَّاهونَ إِلاَّ صبابةً

    ولا كَثْرَةُ الواشينَ إِلاّ تمادِيا

    For those who bid me desist have only increased my longing,

    and the multitude of slanderers has only made me persist all the more.