1. Her beauty and our separation burn me,
So it came between me and meeting her.

2. The dove would not have wept for me before
If her eyes had not helped against me.

3. Her beauties are destined for those who desire her,
And for the longing heart is the memory of her.

4. I greeted her while the breeze was lifting
The fringes of her veil from her radiant cheek.

5. I smelled moisture on her lips amid thirst
A lightning that I cannot quench with her drink.

6. Had she been excessive with kohl, her shyness
Would have surrendered the kohl water to her cheeks.

7. How can one who hums of union be happy
While her resting place is the desire, and her pillow?

8. Her smile in darkness is her chaperone
And the fragrance of her breath is the dawn’s splendor.

9. Perhaps our days that have passed
Will return white as we knew them.

10. Days when I do not ask a singing girl for favor
Except she buys her religion with her world.

11. She grazes around gazelles gracefully
The like of her in beauty and her ilk.

12. She softened away from flirtation, so when
A brave one from her people shook her hand.

13. Time loaned me a hand with them
Until when it was made beautiful, it took it away.

14. So today I do not account union as richness,
Nor the youth’s departure a position for me.

15. The leisure of the Prince was naturally created
To defeat the sword’s edge with its sharpness.

16. Asking him for help even when in hardship, he possessed
The first and last of glories.

17. The winds of generosity were still
Until its precursor flowed and made them flow.

18. My hands are most generous if asked
To grant it the nights of youth, they would give them.

19. When rhymes mention him they scent
His mention perfumes and sweetens them.

20. If he looks at problems he clarifies them,
And if he quenches the thirsty he satisfies them.

21. How many blessings the spring brought forth from him
And disasters like fire he extinguished.

22. His glance reaches the furthest parts of the land
As if bringing closer the furthest parts.

23. Do not wonder at his ambition being high
While his age is in its building stage.

24. The stars that give us light
The smallest among them are the highest.

25. He is guided, the rule was confused since
Its burden and what confused it was placed on him.

26. It came to him before weaning
Yearning for him while his affection trembled.

27. His subjects felt safe in his shade
Fearing his enemies when they were hostile to him.

28. He neglected it with his accord and went
Bearing the swords, herding them.

29. When the asking one became forbidden, he returned it
With accord enriching it.

30. From a tree whose branches grew long and its
Roots anchored and its fruits were delicious.

31. A lamp that illuminated the times, so
It did not extinguish since it was lit.

32. Its charm is attributed to it by its eyes
Bewitching in beauty whoever covets it.

33. Coveting it clad in a garment
Bewitching in beauty whoever covets it.

34. As if the magic of eyes helped it
So it crept into its expression and meaning.

35. A maiden who distanced herself from tent doors,
So the shelter of breasts became her abode.