1. The mistress of the howdah turned away from us
If you do not respond, you put me in an awkward position

2. The easiest thing a lover obtains with
His beloved is to say: make a way out

3. Either fulfill his need or say:
I have nothing I can do to help

4. You are from a people who did not defend me
When the heart of the passionate lover was baking

5. So the slim one was troubled for me, fearing
That she might hear my words and not be moved

6. But she could do no more than gesture
Toward me with her large black eyes

7. Oh for those I love who out of love for me
Yearn over me like she-camels bellowing

8. You appear with hair disheveled over your cheek
Like bunches of pressed grapes

9. As if the pearls around your neck
Were stars of radiant dawn

10. Shedding cold tears woefully
Your eyes overflowed but did not spill

11. Fearing the slanderers might notice
Your condition and the shameless rebuker

12. You are like a gazelle in patterned cloth
More beautiful than the smooth stone of Al-Awsadj

13. Your riding camel and your litter
Are with the tender green and Al-Arafaj

14. And the mule went off with you
Among snorting mules with bells

15. Bearing white spotless eggs
Like clouds of freezing hail

16. I stood long after they left
Watching the deeds of the confounder dispersed

17. Saying, because of what I missed with them
I had not hoped to associate with them

18. I was granted a woman of Yamaniyyah
One of the daughters of Banu Murad from Mudhaj

19. We would spend a whole year never meeting
Except on the Hajj road, if she made Hajj

20. And what's the purpose of Minā
If she does not make the Hajj