الشُربُ في ظُلَّةِ خَمّارِ

الشُربُ في ظُلَّةِ خَمّارِ

عِندي مِنَ اللَذّاتِ يا جاري

عِندي مِنَ اللَذّاتِ يا جاري

Drinking beneath a wine-seller's canopy

Drinking in the shade of a tavern

To drink within the vintner's shaded stall

Is among my pleasures, O my neighbor—

Is for me the greatest of pleasures, my friend

Is a pleasure I hold dear, O neighbor mine,

لا سِيَّما عِندَ يَهودِيَّةٍ

لا سِيَّما عِندَ يَهودِيَّةٍ

حَوراءَ مِثلَ القَمَرِ الساري

حَوراءَ مِثلَ القَمَرِ الساري

Especially with a Jewish woman,

Especially with a Jewish beauty

Especially in the company of a Jewish maid,

Large, dark-eyed, like the moon traveling through the night.

A houri like a radiant moon

Doe-eyed, radiant as the moon moving through the night,

تَسقيكَ مِن كَفٍّ لَها رَطبَةٍ

تَسقيكَ مِن كَفٍّ لَها رَطبَةٍ

كَأَنَّها فِلقَةُ جُمّارِ

كَأَنَّها فِلقَةُ جُمّارِ

She gives you drink from her moist palm,

Who serves you from a soft hand

She pours for you from a hand so soft and tender,

As though it were a piece of palm heart,

As if it were a ripe date

As though it were the white heart of a palm;

حَتّى إِذا السُكرُ تَمَشّى بِها

حَتّى إِذا السُكرُ تَمَشّى بِها

صارَ لَها صَولَةُ جَبّارِ

صارَ لَها صَولَةُ جَبّارِ

Until, when drunkenness courses through her,

Until drunkenness takes hold of her

Until, when the intoxication courses through her,

A tyrant's ferocity becomes hers.

And makes her behave like a mighty warrior

She assumes the imperious might of a tyrant.