Ruba'i No. 1: Nothing but your image came to our sight. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 2: Take the joyous wine and come.

Ruba'i No. 3: I said your lips, and they replied, 'My lips are the water of life.'

Ruba'i No. 4: The moon whose stature resembles the upright cypress.

Ruba'i No. 5: I placed my hand around your waist. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 6: You are the full moon, and the sun has become your servant.

Ruba'i No. 7: Each day, my heart is burdened with another load.

Ruba'i No. 8: My moon, whose face has taken the brightness of the sun. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 9: Tonight, I shall sleep in blood from your sorrow. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 10: The tale of that radiant candle cannot be told.

Ruba'i No. 11: At first, it was loyalty that granted me union.

Ruba'i No. 12: The wealth of the world is not worth injustice.

Ruba'i No. 13: Every friend who spoke of loyalty became an enemy.

Ruba'i No. 14: When the bud of the rose prepares the wine jar.

Ruba'i No. 15: With wine, one must be by the stream.

Ruba'i No. 16: This flower comes from the presence of a companion.

Ruba'i No. 17: Have hope from the heavens in every way.

Ruba'i No. 18: It is the days of youth, and wine is better. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 19: The beauties of the world can be captured with gold.

Ruba'i No. 20: The flood has surrounded the ruins of life.

Ruba'i No. 21: Do not take the love of the beloved's face away from my wretched self.

Ruba'i No. 22: I clung to her tresses out of need. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 23: Ask about the bravery of the one who opened the gate of Khaibar.

Ruba'i No. 24: Your eyes, which are the master of Babylonian magic.

Ruba'i No. 25: O friend, draw your heart away from the enemy's cruelty.

Ruba'i No. 26: A moon whose beauty has no equal.

Ruba'i No. 27: In the garden, when the morning breeze becomes the nurse of flowers.

Ruba'i No. 28: Do not part your lips from the rim of the cup for a moment.

Ruba'i No. 29: I perished in longing for your kiss and embrace.

Ruba'i No. 30: I have wasted a lifetime in pursuit of desire.

Ruba'i No. 31: I have nothing to show for my life but sorrow.

Ruba'i No. 32: Why should you, like wine, boil over with grief?

Ruba'i No. 33: O bashful bud, hidden because of you. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 34: Your eyes, which pour out charm and color.

Ruba'i No. 35: O wind, tell my tale to her in secret.

Ruba'i No. 36: O shadow of your tress, nurtured by jasmine. *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 37: You said, 'Do not worry; I will become yours.' *(Attributed to several poets)

Ruba'i No. 38: Place that goblet of joy in my hand.

Ruba'i No. 39: With a playful beauty, with the harp and reed flute.

Ruba'i No. 40: The one who decides heaven and hell, that solver of mysteries.

Ruba'i No. 41: If only fate had been kind.

Ruba'i No. 42: If, like me, you fall into this trap. *(Attributed to several poets)