1. A face like the full moon
Shining on the thirtieth night

2. More beautiful and radiant
Than a bouquet among the branches

3. A breeze issues from her brow
Speaking in perfume of eyes’ messages

4. Her mouth when she smiles
Is like a bowl for the poor

5. Her dimples tell, in their charm
And beauty, the tongues of the scales

6. And the beauty of her braids is enough
Like partridges among the tree branches

7. Her neck’s a charm for him who gazes on it
Most like a dragon’s neck, allurements in it

8. Her shoulders in their handsome build
Are like two pomegranates made of clay

9. Her belly’s a meadow, its delicacy
Telling what’s hid in the books of state

10. Her leg, smooth-calved, its anklets
Are stirrers of passions crazed

11. Her glance ensnares whom she desires
Like the glance of those possessed

12. Her cheek’s the loveliest emplacement
Most like the letter Nun’s enclosure

13. Her step compared to women’s steps
Is from women to China closer

14. She was born of a blessed folk
No devil in them, no advisers