1. I'm amazed that my love needs a writer,
While the scribes of that full moon stopped trying to describe her.
١. عَجِبْتُ لحِبّي كيفَ يحتاجُ كاتِباً
وكُتّابُ ذاكَ البَدْرِ جلّتْ عن الحدِّ
2. For her face wrote the lines of coquetry like verses
In the ink of musk, on the page of her cheek.
٢. فَإِنَّ البَها خَطَّ العِذار كأسْطُرٍ
غَدَتْ مِنْ مِدادِ المِسكِ في صَفحَةِ الخدِّ
3. And the calculation of her magic was proven right
In her eyelid, where her glances write in henna.
٣. وَإِنَّ حِسابَ السّحرِ قَد صَحَّ كَسرُهُ
مِنَ الجفنِ حيثُ اللحظُ يَكتُبُ بِالهندي