1. O you whose cheek I long to kiss
A waist to embrace and ignite desire

2. Let me unleash my ambitious glance
That flows back from your cheek like a rose

3. I have in your consent a spring
Would that your consent was my rose!

4. By God, I bear witness
That it is sweet, saliva flows like honey

5. The swaying of the shapely ones stirs
Gliding gracefully in their walk

6. A Narcissus branch tremors for me
If at any time a leg was shaken

7. And the doe's eye meanings for me
Cheek opposing cheek

8. Who adorns himself with it for me
Has hung the necklace with a clasp

9. Without it I wouldn't have plunged into a valley
Nor climbed over Najd

10. With my love's first down which
Grazes the protected, virtuous, and chaste

11. I spend my evenings and mornings in his love
Hopeful in the evening and next morning

12. And your waist, most flexuous and pliant
Prevents me from a noble and generous man

13. I ransom you from one who refuses
O most ransomed of pastures!

14. You have bound all hearts with a love
That leads the free man to slavery

15. Your flashing glance is unsheathed
For it you have made sword scabbards

16. A sword that spills the blood of my kidneys
For me it clinks brightly the blades

17. I have vowed never to cease loving you
Vowing exertion and effort

18. If you but knew of my night vigil
You would have found or fulfilled ecstasy

19. And I remembered you as a shepherd
When you forgot your covenant

20. And I regarded your sincere affection
While you mingled affection with hatred

21. Whoever reproached my love for you
Fell down while my heart in you withered

22. And repeats the description of attributes
Like the passing of Suhail when it crosses the meridian

23. You have come to me with your like, O
Third of the two moons plus one

24. You have left me no blood at all
That flows, nor bone and skin

25. As for the messenger with loose hair I sent
I sent him disheveled and unkempt

26. With you I have struck my wrists
With reeds that extend the distance between palms

27. How many times have I descended
To its lower slopes and ascended its heights!