1. Those blossoming abodes,
With hamats of glory,

2. Abodes of folded tents -
A wand of humanity sways within.

3. Their hearts complain and nothing but
The heavens comfort them.

4. The wand nearly bends if
Their gilded leaves were changed.

5. Each rosy cheek's carnelian
Has twigs of cloven willows.

6. And the rump trembles as if
Snakes had toyed with them.

7. O comrades, the heart's bird hunts them -
Can any escape you?

8. How you slew me the day calamities grieved,
You whites, yet you are swarthy.

9. Fairer to my eyes than dawn,
Had you been milk-white.

10. You carried a body I made liquid
When your arms entwined and pressed.

11. The Yemeni braid swayed with it
As the water hyacinth sways on water.

12. As if his teeth were ringed
With the bloodied blades of spears.

13. Will you tell us, while passion is keen
Against us, of your grudges?

14. With what crime were dyed, from my blood,
Those straight and supple spears?

15. How dare you seek blood which
Virgins cannot attain?

16. A knight casts it in battle, and
Maids fear the mention of him.

17. He rushes unto death as
The straight swift spears rushed upon dew.

18. If the fragrant maidens are not for me,
Then for whom are the fragrant maidens?

19. Had I in life some strength
To tame the untamable,

20. And if life takes my strength,
I have, for food, the generosity of Ishmael.