1. She appeared, and my heart fluttered for her,
And she sang, so all friends became enchanted.

2. Swaying with the drunkenness of passion,
When her supple side bent around.

3. She got up to serve us the wine, if only
She had sought company, the saliva would have flowed.

4. She played the instruments, exciting the inanimate,
Until we knew how the horn gives life.

5. I looked at her and got drunk on her glances,
And I drank her wine, so how could I sober up?

6. I saw the softness of her waist, so I gave her
My heart, for both are delicate.

7. A coquette, a companion, aloofness in her,
Hope lives, but compatibility is killed.

8. Like a glowing ember, flashing, drawing near,
And sighing heavily for whoever comes to it.

9. She said, as I had flirted with her excessively:
“Playfulness does not suit white hair.”

10. “Far from it! My white hair is not from old age,
This coquetry leads my hair to whiteness.”

11. “I am a man enchanted by the flirtation of passions,
And the sight of beauties makes me yearn.”

12. Eyes have pilgrimaged to my heart, for it is
A home, though I won't say an old one.

13. O lady of precious, glorious beauty, for you applause,
Egypt has spread out, with a blaze over it.

14. The moisture of your cheek in the gardens, and my tears,
One has a mole, the other a brother.

15. My flowing tears persist forever,
And my heart is inclined to love.

16. A heart like your mole in goodness, fragrant,
Though one is musk, the other crumbs.

17. He is my intercessor, in him is loyalty
To the son of nobility, a sunna and rights.

18. When is loyalty? For you, everyday
Excellences of loyalty come first.

19. Choice things come from you, not solicited,
Unlike the minted coin.

20. God is great in the leadership, driving it away,
And its entourage, together and apart.

21. A man, what can describe him? It's enough that he is
A man of implied and spoken meaning.

22. The meanings and eloquence of his words
Are weighty, and their sense delicate and precise.

23. So when he speaks, his words immediately
Do what admonition by the preacher cannot do.

24. Revive poetry and its practitioners, and say to him
“It was borrowed before, while you are free.”

25. You are in his hand, too weak to
Escape it, for you are a fugitive slave, stolen.

26. You have from his sound talent correctness
And a style no effeminate can inherit.

27. That is the elixir, made by God, not an
Elixir made by the perfumer.

28. You cast the crescent, and it becomes through you
A sun, rising again even as it sets.

29. O Peter, the generous, noble one, his place
And structure, his tongue precise.

30. You are nobility, and its son, and a father to it,
A noble lineage in generosity, long-established.

31. I toured the lands, and sat with you without
Travels, and the she-camels did not favor me.

32. It did not escape me that the ancients are gone,
And you remained, to you is my path.