يا غزالا قلب مضناه ملك

بشر انت فقل لي ام ملك

O gazelle who has captured your lovesick lover's heart,

Are you human—tell me—or an angel?

قمت تجلى بجمال باهر

جل من بالسحن فضلا جللك

You stood revealed in dazzling beauty;

Exalted is He who graciously clothed you in comeliness.

يا لطيف الذات يا حلو اللمى

جرت لكن قامة ما اعدلك

O delicate in essence, O sweet of dusky lips,

You have been unjust, yet how upright you are in stature!

لمعان الحسن وضاح السنى

بضياء الظرف غشى هيكلك

Beauty's gleam, brilliant in radiance,

has enveloped your form in the light of grace.

لو رأك البدر في برج العلى

قال يا هذا الفتى ما اجملك

Were the full moon to see you in the celestial mansion on high,

it would say, 'O young man, how beautiful you are!'

يا حبيبا سلب القلب اتئد

ها هو القلب وكل الجسم لك

O beloved who stole my heart, go gently;

Here is my heart, and my whole body is yours.

فترفق بمحب هائم

كل فج لك في الحب سلك

So be gentle with a lover distraught,

who has trodden every path in love for you.

درت عن نهج ودادي فاحتكم

لك هذا انت للحسن فلك

You turned away from the path of my affection; rule as you will.

That is your right: you are beauty's celestial sphere.

غير ان الفضل يقضي بالوفا

لولوه ذي هيام املك

Yet virtue demands fidelity

to a lovesick one, full of longing, who has set his hopes on you.

والذي اعطاك انواع البها

وعلى الريم بعقل فضلك

And by Him who gave you every kind of splendor,

and favored you above the white gazelle through reason:

شعرك الداجي على الصدغين مذ

ماج قلت الشمس حفت بالحلك

when your dark hair over your temples

billowed, I said, 'The sun is encircled by blackness.'

ولعمري طرفك الوسنان ما

مس بالسيف فتى الا هلك

And by my life, your drowsy gaze has never

touched a youth with its sword without his perishing.

مفردات الحسن فيك اجتمعت

آه لو بالرفق ربي اكملك

Beauty's separate charms have all come together in you.

Ah, if only my Lord had perfected you with gentleness!