1. No glance has pierced the eyelids drawing a rueful blade
Except it met a slaughterer and lethal assailant.

2. Your gaze insisted to shed my blood,
Though shedding it would not profit you.

3. My vengeance for your eyes, if they prove fatal,
Is that I'm honored to be one of your victims.

4. In every quarter someone lies slain by your love, so why,
O Hind, have you strewn so many corpses in the living?

5. You left a heart in which you once took shelter -
Wouldn't blame have better housed you than that abode?

6. You shot your eyelash arrow beyond range,
Though bringing the target nearer wouldn't have harmed.

7. You determined to repel gently from your purpose,
Though the witness of beauty is kindness toward you.

8. In you are rest and sweetness that inflamed my liver
And seared the heart, if I don't drink from your mouth.

9. In the eyelids are gazelles, in the eyes, does,
And I'm confused between charmer and slayer.

10. I warned your tempting glance against shedding my blood
As circumstances required warning your temptation.

11. Estrangement then confused my discernment through knowledge
And passion conjugated my deeds through your names.

12. How can I be patient, when the summoner of your glances called
And the passion for you seized my heart when you winked?

13. O object of my heart's pilgrimage, I've circled you -
If only you'd made my cheek your place of ritual circumambulation!

14. In the prayer niches of your cheeks that have folded together
My tearful, reverent gaze ends up worshipping at night.

15. I join my wasted body to your supple waist -
May its delicacy lament your emaciation!

16. And I hope you'll generously grant me, if only briefly,
So sight might behold you in my dreams.

17. Visit me veiled by the night of hair and take cover
Lest morning's light reveal your path.

18. If the dark of hair obscures you, then wait
For daylight's gleams to dawn from your folds.

19. Don't let the goldsmith's whisper frighten you when
You've hidden your tracks from his revelation.

20. Don't let the perfumer's gossip appall you -
What your path concealed, only meeting you reveals.

21. Neither dawn smiled until you did,
Nor night crept in before it brushed your cheek.

22. Nor did the goldsmith's whisper spread but that
He related your singing's melody.

23. Nor did the cheek's amber pass on its pillow
Unless to transmit its scent from your fresh meadow.

24. No reproacher hoping for a likeness could refute
Beauty's proof which your proof established.

25. You wished for a peer, but that's impossible -
If beauty imagined, it wouldn't exceed you.

26. If the full moon related your radiant cheeks' beauty,
Loveliness would witness to the speaker, not the speech.

27. If the gazelle glanced back at your eyes enchanted,
Magic would delude that the gazelle is your eyes.

28. Whence would the gazelle have curved cheeks
That protect the moles its blush revealed?

29. How would the gazelle have languid eyes
Topping the down its glances stirred?

30. What are the moon, sun, the coy gazelle and what
The flowers' prime and the banana's boughs without you?

31. Are bliss and Salma and Rabab, if counted,
Among beauties other than you?

32. Wander drunk on the branches and steal the flowers' joy -
The branches and flowers are from your singing's secrets.

33. I seek refuge from your deadly glance with the star
As with light and dawn we've guarded your life.

34. The slanderers' hands have pulled up a moon like the sun -
Unharmed by the slyness of such impugners as you!

35. Turkish of glance, were it not for her eloquence's Arabness
I'd not have inclined to non-Arabs' passion and you.

36. Her eyelash's Harut has cast its ropes
And dropped the heart in the abyss of your snares.

37. I complained of my sickness to her glance's complainant, but it winked
Mockingly and said, "I'm the one complained of, not the complainer."

38. When its viewer peered from the eyelids, undrawn,
It skewered my heart unsheathed, without you.

39. Be gentle, o queen of beauty, with my heart, and do not
Seek vengeance on me, for I'm one of your subjects.

40. I refrain my gaze from seeing any but you, just as
I purify my heart from associating others with you.