1. أيُّ قلبٍ يبقى على الحبِّ أيُّ

    طَرْفُ مَنْ قَدْ هَويتُهُ بابليُّ

    What heart can survive love—what heart?

    The gaze of the one I have loved is Babylonian.

  2. ليس لي من هواه راقٍ وداءُ

    العِشْقِ بين الأَنامداءٌ قويّ

    I have no healer to charm away my love for him; and the sickness

    of passion is a mighty affliction among humankind.

  3. قادني نحوه الغَرامُ وفي جَفْنَيْ

    هِ شيءٌ يدعو المحبَّ خفيُّ

    Passion led me toward him; within his eyelids

    is something hidden that beckons the lover.

  4. هوَ من دونهِ الغَزالةُ جيداً

    وبأعطافِه من الغُصْنِ زِيُّ

    In beauty of neck, the gazelle falls short of him,

    and his form bears the likeness of a bough.

  5. بدرُ تِمّ مُخَصّر الخَصْر أحوى

    حَدَثُ السنِّ مستجدُّ جَني

    A full moon, slender-waisted and dark-lipped,

    young in years, freshly ripe.

  6. مُتْرفٌ ما يكاد يَخْطر إِلاّ

    بانَ في عطفه كلالٌ وعيّ

    Pampered, he scarcely takes a swaying step without

    weariness and faltering showing in his frame.

  7. يشبه النَّور في نصاعَة وجهٍ

    عَنْدميِّ الخدودِ غِرٌّ حيّي

    He resembles blossoms in his face's pure whiteness,

    crimson-cheeked, innocent and shy.

  8. روضة للجمال صيغت من الدرِّ

    وغصن يعروه هَزٌّ وليّ

    A garden of beauty fashioned from pearls,

    and a bough that sways and bends.

  9. ليَ من مقلتَيْه رمزٌ خَلوبٌ

    وابتسام بادٍ ووحي نجيُّ

    From his eyes I receive a beguiling signal,

    and an open smile, and a whispered confidence.