1. Between hearts and eyes warfare rages
Kindled by the glances of does and gazelles

2. I saw her listless, white cheeks
Upon the brown skin of a withered palm branch

3. Black yet spilling white blood
And yellow jaundice from her

4. A fierce battle where an enchantress was broken
Her eyelids torn, forgot the battle of the camel

5. When the glance of a doe turns, seeking
I forget my death through her fatal glance

6. What is it with eyes, what is it with me? How often
A glance strips bare, keeping the doe from grazing

7. O lovers, have you not seen what I endure
Of love, while you are busy with other things

8. Preoccupied with love, not desiring blame
Nor heeding censure

9. I do not mourn the encampment if its landmarks
Are obscured, nor weep for the ruins

10. I do not see lightning as a grinning mouth
Nor say her spittle is like honey

11. Nor the braids are bending boughs
Nor the lashes those of a dark-eyed gazelle

12. The doe has not fled from my eyes, embarrassed
The roses still shame my cheeks

13. Who sees the course of simile as a flaw
Does not claim kohl is in the kohl