1. The black-eyed gazelle bleated
An enemy of the shoot of nobility, kohled

2. Then a delicate gazelle bent in cloaks
Clothed in the hems of withered spears

3. The morning sun shy of its beauty
Of its beauty, the morning sun shy

4. O you who saw a sun on a thin branch
Swaying with the intoxication of the morning breeze in the meadows

5. A doe intoxicated, with no enemy
A sun of beauty, with no admirer

6. My heart a captive of her glance, and how often she shot
And her eyelashes precisely struck my demise

7. For the death of the lovers is from her figure
And her glance between coyness and disdain

8. I see the swords with the shields taking heed
Except swords unsheathed from scabbards

9. My heart has become a target, shot
By the arrows of the possessors of languid eyes

10. It is but a single moment
That brings together what is between purpose and fate

11. The killing of gazelles when they frolic and the fluttering
Of their lashes, killers in the thickets

12. She smiles from a paralyzing dimple that softened with
The gentleness of the wind and the purity of honey

13. No reproacher blames the tall one for her statue
Except the one satisfied with her touch

14. None console me but her touch a spring
And my heart thirsts for that spring

15. It would not harm her to allow a sip
From saliva in which lies the cure for illnesses

16. O time of connection, return to the silent one
I return, you to that life for me

17. For my meadow is fresh and my garden of delight flourishing
The rope of connection not yet severed

18. Days of intimacy have come and reached their peak
In them, I attained the farthest hopes

19. With all the intoxication of the moment from the nectar of the morning breeze
Bearing cups of chained wine

20. Delicate Haya, her scarf fluttering, though
She is silent, unadorned

21. Where is the rosy down from her cheek
And the branch from her shapely figure

22. She has removed her jewellery from her neck
Singing with beauty beyond all adornment

23. I have come to love her coyness from remembering her
From remembering her I have come to love her coyness

24. Gentle of cheek, hard of heart
Slender of waist, smooth of ankle

25. How she was stingy denying union to a lover
If he asked for himself, he would not be stingy

26. With a neck finer than a blade’s edge
And a glance kohled

27. A gazelle whose beauty resembles the steed’s
So how did its glance come to squint?

28. Would that what exalted my body were its glance
Fulfilling the promise of union

29. I cannot forget the day at the dune, our stance
Fulfilling the promise of union

30. With my soul having soared dispersed rays
From the agony of passion and the unease of anxiety

31. It was but standing for an hour
Until the caravan leader hurried the camels

32. The eye’s fortune was the day it secretly glanced
Through the cracks of the barrier

33. Do not ask me for a substitute for their love
I will not be content after them with a substitute

34. After them my state is one of dispersed greyness
Ageing, but their love does not fade

35. Oh heart, you have not been just with an oppressor
Unjust in his ruling, not equitable

36. He sees my blood permitted and their union
Forbidden to me, not made permitted

37. Can you awaken from the intoxication of passion
When the clear-headedness of bleeding has arrived?