1. I yearn while my heart fears separation
Where is the heart of youth and passionate love?

2. I fell in love with passion and folly
I became distracted while my tears do not flow

3. How can I cry while love brings the youth joy?
While my brother's eye is dry of tears of joy

4. I long for the beautiful gazelle while she is in my mind
And I am utterly obsessed with longing for her

5. She settled in my heart, my eye and my hearing
Is there anyone else I know besides her?

6. No limb of mine but she is its life
Each is obsessed with her and love is ardent

7. I have no patience with or without her presence
Oh woe to my heart, my patience is exhausted

8. A girl of beauty and beauty is her beauty
In her presence all beauties are like motes

9. Describe her in the best depictions of beauty
But her beauty cannot be enumerated by any describer

10. She who outshone the rising sun and moon
If she appears the moon and moonlight are eclipsed

11. She wounded my tender cheek in my imagination
So a brilliant smile flashed across my eye

12. She made my heart bleed in retribution for her glance
And my heart's blood reddened as it gushed

13. By my soul that is slender like a twig
By which the fine fabric is embroidered

14. The morning breeze tells of her gentle charms
And by God, subtleties are narrated about Salih

15. The brother of excellence, the master of literary skill
An eloquent tongue from which subtleties are harvested

16. The father of verse and then prose, pearls and jewels
With the magic of his eloquence, beauty halts

17. Necklaces of pearls made of precious gems
Their style, delicate, exquisite subtleties

18. The masters of eloquence all agreed upon their beauty
And none among them differs about that

19. Sagacious, the jurist of the self at the height of wit
With an intellect from which knowledge is collected

20. To me he gifted a wonderful gift, by his excellence
My excellent and knowledgeable brother acknowledges it

21. A bride of pearls, and she is a precious first purchase
In the intoxication of harmony, none can describe her

22. She has no defects, neither overt nor in thought
Though what the jealous claims in this world is defective

23. May she remain, by God's protection, in fertile life
And may honor's abundance be woven around her

24. For as long as the days and epochs pass
With no winters that stirred branches in the meadow

25. Nor leaves that rustled on a bough
Nor any days in this life with criers crying out