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با لب دمساز خود گر جفتمی ** همچو نی من گفتنیها گفتمی
- Were I joined to the lip of one in accord with me, I too, like the reed, would tell all that may be told;
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هر که او از هم زبانی شد جدا ** بی‌‌زبان شد گر چه دارد صد نوا
- (But) whoever is parted from one who speaks his language becomes dumb, though he have a hundred songs.
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چون که گل رفت و گلستان در گذشت ** نشنوی ز ان پس ز بلبل سر گذشت
- When the rose is gone and the garden faded, thou wilt hear no more the nightingale's story.
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جمله معشوق است و عاشق پرده‌‌ای ** زنده معشوق است و عاشق مرده‌‌ای 30
- The Beloved is all and the lover (but) a veil; the Beloved is living and the lover a dead thing.
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چون نباشد عشق را پروای او ** او چو مرغی ماند بی‌‌پر، وای او
- When Love hath no care for him, he is left as a bird without wings. Alas for him then!
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من چگونه هوش دارم پیش و پس ** چون نباشد نور یارم پیش و پس
- How should I have consciousness (of aught) before or behind when the light of my Beloved is not before me and behind?
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عشق خواهد کاین سخن بیرون بود ** آینه غماز نبود چون بود
- Love wills that this Word should be shown forth: if the mirror does not reflect, how is that?
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آینه‌‌ت دانی چرا غماز نیست ** ز انکه زنگار از رخش ممتاز نیست
- Dost thou know why the mirror (of thy soul) reflects nothing? Because the rust is not cleared from its face.
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عاشق شدن پادشاه بر کنیزک رنجور و تدبیر کردن در صحت او
- How the king fell in love with the sick handmaiden and made plans to restore her health.
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بشنوید ای دوستان این داستان ** خود حقیقت نقد حال ماست آن 35
- O my friends, hearken to this tale: in truth it is the very marrow of our inward state.
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بود شاهی در زمانی پیش از این ** ملک دنیا بودش و هم ملک دین
- In olden time there was a king to whom belonged the power temporal and also the power spiritual.