1. He blames me for loving though love excuses
And rebuffs what I have done and reprimands

2. It severs the bond of passion though passion bonds
And quenches the flames within my heart though it burns

3. Can the sane ask the lovesick one
For sanity when it does not occur to his heart?

4. O you who inform me, repeat your talk announcing
For the best talk of love is what repeats

5. Do not be shy in what you have mentioned
For your talk brings out happiness for me

6. Does the living one whom you pledged in the early morning
Keep his promise or did he become perfumed or aloof?

7. And did the departure of that band pain them
And did any of them become stronger or weakened?

8. That is how the ruins of the living one are
And in the heart there is a ruin that does not become a ruin

9. How I have dragged the tail of my youth over them
And the beautiful gazelle caressed me, intoxicated

10. Nights of the days of union are from a radiant India
And the night of contentment and union is from a moonlit India

11. When she does not help me with her union
Nor is the limpidity of my pool with her disturbed

12. Intoxicated, she glance like the glances
Of a wild animal, causing distress

13. Her waist mimics the bending of the branches
When she comes walking gracefully

14. The curves of her bending almost steal her waist
When it bends, cradled by her swaying

15. If an ant crawled over her soft body
It would nearly, if it crawled over it, penetrate

16. How strange I try to attain her union
While she moves away and recoils from me

17. I have drawn in my heart a picture of affection
Its features in my heart do not change

18. And with it I have etched a long fissure of love
In which for her are lines and prose

19. I am more generous to her with myself than a madman
Just as the camel is generous to its master with wealth

20. A king who has in the pinnacle of kingship a dwelling
And in the highest rank a minaret and pulpit

21. When he changes the horizons with his faces
Radiant, its prosperity green

22. If he is generous to us from the rain of his palms
In the morning he brings us showers of generosity

23. You see generosity folded in the realms of his kingdom
Like folding the register, justice being spread

24. The most honored of kings in self and company
And the greatest of them in status, the highest and biggest

25. If he is generous on the day of bounty he is Hatim
And if he decreases on the day of decreasing he is Antara

26. Caesar falls short of his glories
And never will his glories be surpassed by Caesar

27. To you Abu Dahma she has come as if
A bride came in her finery, swaggering

28. Her tresses are fine and silky and her adornment
Is jewels, pearls, gold and gems