1. The gazelle grazes in the agate meadow
Exposing the tender branches of an-Naqa

2. With languid and deadly eyes
And cheeks blushed red by shame

3. Her white complexion and black eyeliner she was named
Black in the morning and confirmed black

4. Oh how charming are her glances
That strike men down in battle

5. And shapely waists made slender by her sickness
And branches she revealed as breasts

6. The charming glances I asked of him
Only distance did he grant

7. He keeps away the attainment when he draws near in pride
Did you ever see a near one far?

8. I ask his compassion but he recoils
And I request his generosity but he twists his hand

9. He fears the edge of his glance in his eyelid
As the sword fears its sharpened edge

10. He repeats the confusion he showed
And I cease not from that first repeater

11. The wave of his rejection exposes with its constant flow
A sandy dune and hopes cut down

12. No sooner did I string his pearls as a necklace
Than my tears remained streaming

13. I forgot with passion the rule of love
And he became estranged and remote

14. The blossoming of twigs scatters from his land
Where you see not his beauty thornless

15. My patience left me the day their caravan loaded
And my eyelid bid farewell to shutting

16. Oh will the sultry nights bring back
And former days return

17. My tears' pact with them has broken
And their covenants are torn

18. The dwellings of al-Mazan do not cease
To slumber upon their ruins and little hills

19. You see but clouds crying
Or a bird singing

20. They observed not except to abandon
Intentionally, and fended off constantly the formidable

21. Oh time of separation, pass with guidance
And oh era of union, return blessed

22. Oh sharpness of al-Eisa, how much anguish
Has lodged within my heart, accustomed to sorrow

23. And sighs that dissolve your frozen hardness
Sheltering the fuelwoods of ignited meteors

24. Suppose not that your return
Folds the horizons and destroys the remains

25. Rather it wandered, and my love made it
Draw near the distant range