1. We sent her to you as scattering thoughts
With meanings that without her poetry's honor would not be

2. A bride, yet wed to a daughter of the intoxicating night
My mind is seduced by her intoxication

3. When my body says she is adorned in beauty
I tell it, no, her dowry is her dowry

4. So who could have her? Not melancholy, her color conquered it
Nor pallor, her blush and paleness she overtook

5. Stars wane and the full moon, if they appear
She rises above with what she attained of her blondness

6. It plunges when it meets blood like its hue
And no water but the water made verdant by immersion

7. So its whiteness and cheeks delighted her
But above the rest she spilled the wine

8. And I outpace those who returned to you and the poet
Whose rhymes are unmatched, unparalleled pearls

9. So if he smelled the land of Persia, a Persian
By nightfall they would be Egypt to him, Egypt

10. The offspring of a warrior whose horses he sires
Watered by blood, war smolders in them