1. He startled her, so she turned away angry
Do you know how gazelles are startled?

2. She was created gentle and carefree
Maybe the passing breeze alarmed her

3. I have a beloved, whenever told
He believes the words and purifies any doubt

4. The blamers lied in what they claimed
My hope in my darling didn't lie

5. If we were seen, love between us
And darkness spreading its veils over us

6. Under cover of night in its custody
We'd mention dawn so it wouldn't come near

7. Our embrace was chaste love and passion
Protecting beauty and virtuous manners

8. O gazelle who filled my heart with him
My heart slopes and bends as his playground

9. For you whatever you loved of his love
A fresh, sweet spring and pleasant meadow

10. He's owned by the First Master of him
How can I complain that he was taken

11. If He saw best to keep his possession
Or saw best to destroy him and was content

12. For you a tall lithe form that bent before him
And the rubies wished they could wear him

13. And a gaze of the magic of his eyes
That gathered arrows and antelope

14. My heart had enough of this
What's left for my heart and love after youth?

15. My nature is not to captivate hearts with it
The poet was created generous and enchanting

16. If they extolled your beauty or sang of it
Labid would be in his eighties youthful

17. O soul, you find life futile
Have you seen life as anything but play?

18. Try the world, and you'll find it - as you've tried -
The world is most disdained by those who've tried

19. You've gained from its appearance what you've gained
And you were granted eternity in name and deeds