1. I say to a flash of lightning I sensed in its clouds,
Your smile resembles the most beautiful smile.

2. Did it spend the night awake borrowed from fingers
That bid us good morning with their redness?

3. How can lightning perceive he whose eyelids
Slept till dawn drunk with lengthy slumber?

4. Was it his breath cooled from his torpor
Like one whose insides were heated with passion?

5. A sickly gazelle, I lost my health.
And nothing helps to cure its sickness.

6. A withering twig I am in love and greenness,
A full moon wearing away with loss of fullness,

7. If I wished for his slender waist to embrace me
The creeping vines of his figure would entwine me.

8. It wards off a rose over a cheek as though
A mole were kissing it with a gentle touch.

9. A noble youth of resolute will
Whose departure wounded his back.

10. Cares of the high-minded throng in his heart,
And eloquence of meaning in his eloquent speech.

11. In travel, traveling with pride,
Pelted by wild cows with their pebbles.

12. When the steed rebels, he strikes its chest with a whip
And it takes off with him into the desert, unrestrained.

13. So the riding beast was always his land’s strength,
And the camel, strength of its saddlecloth’s grease.

14. I made him a full moon but turned him back
A crescent with the loss of his tasks.

15. A stallion whose journey is long with his endurance,
A helper comes to his aid in his determination.

16. When the spirits rustled and covered him with their rustling,
Their heat seared his face with combustion.

17. The echo of wrists in the noonday heat moves his herd
With whatever collects and folds up the tents.

18.
The palm tears the cloak of the ginger-haired one