1. Who will get me your slender frame, oh shaker of resolve,
And your sly glances that pierce like arrows?

2. Lightweight, not heavy with pretense,
Yet profoundly wise, excelling in subtlety,

3. With it I would charm, to subdue aloofness -
For in it I found the humbling of my pride.

4. Oh would that your glance might give me,
A talisman for the heart, a charm against ills,

5. Or that my verses about you might not disappoint,
Though I am verbose in my conciseness.

6. With the allure that won my heart entire,
That seizes it, were you to seize unawares,

7. You’d become an Iraqi, revealing your thoughts
Like the blooming of flowers - an unmistakable Najdi.

8. And turn Yemeni, embroidering asides
With Washi and satin brocade.

9. They’d gift you from Sanaa, marked as theirs,
Like sleet held in my hands, cool as glass.

10. I wish I had a dove to set after you,
Chasing with sparrowhawks and falcon.

11. If one appealed to me for your hand, elated,
Between a herd of deer and legit bonds,

12. I’d water his hope with my tears,
And headstrong, I'd let you go to Ahwaz.

13. A Bedouin girl brought you, but one of noble
Lineage and distinguished pedigree.

14. She birthed you a Shia for me, so it’s as if
She’d not read your horoscope, oh Razi.