1. No matter how sleep eludes these eyelids
What use is fantasy if it flows away?

2. Bring me no phantom visitor in the night
Unless I've drunk a heady draught of slumber.

3. From my sighs take what saddens my heart
If you are the confidant of lovers' pains.

4. Speak not of others, youths and damsels fair,
For the hunted game all run within my breast.

5. Brother of the gazelle and the wild gazelle,
Behold me thus, and see what I have come to.

6. How strange is passion in love's agony!
My tears flow down while you ask what has happened.

7. By your life, my words to the fair ladies
Are for you a fabricated tale, no more.

8. You showed your hair to me in the morning light,
Displaying sudden darkness in the moonlit night.

9. You made my lot as black as your cheek's mole
And brought me death like your red cheeks' rose.

10. Proof that your face is paradise lies in this:
Your saliva is a water pure as Kauthar.

11. You shot me with the arrows of your deadly glance,
On which Harut's inscriptions are engraven.

12. Not till I saw your eyes was I convinced
That the wild deer hunt lions on the hill.

13. Only when earth meets Pleiades in heaven
Can I attain the bliss to be with you.