1. Ghaloaa, how sweet is this perfume,
A girl envied by virgins,

2. No poet can compose
A poem more beautiful than her beginning.

3. Imagine the flowers in vases
Revived by the quiver of lights,

4. Imagine the morning breeze
Shaking the stalks of jasmine and citrus,

5. Imagine the sky in its serenity,
Like dreams in their purity,

6. Imagine the grass on the mountains
Dreaming on a bed of shade,

7. Imagine the lovely pond
Colored by the shade of oleander,

8. And the piles of snow on the hilltops
Touched by the yellowness of the horizon,

9. And finally look a quick look
At the varied beauty in nature,

10. You will know then with certainty
How the sky created Ghaloaa,

11. And in forms close to her
She was given the name of the beloved rose,

12. Her beauty carries madness
And the flash of desire in the eyes,

13. You feel from her burning body
In each vein the blood of a man,

14. Imagine the volcano in its eruption
The flames bursting out of its mouth,

15. Like a lustful woman in her passion
An element of fire fueled by her desire,

16. Imagine death with the fangs of a viper
Frightening amidst flowers it stalks,

17. You'd think amidst the glow of light
It's a stream flowing through the flowers,

18. Imagine the chest in its cheeks
A rose flush on which a youth floats,

19. You'd think it the spring at its dawn
If you did not hear the cough of its chest,

20. And he choked on swallowing his saliva,
So he fetched the drop in his cup,

21. And if the echo of a scorpion rang
He'd prefer choking to drinking,

22. And finally look a quick look
At the varied evils in nature,

23. Hatred will then appear to you and you’ll know
How she wanted a rose from hell,

24. And Ghaloaa wanted to visit
The mother of the oldest ancestors in Tyr,

25. So she traveled, guarded by the youth,
And her alluring blessed Ghaloaa,

26. Phoenicia and its erected glory,
And its esteemed supported rule,

27. The princess of arts and trade,
And the origin of sciences and civilization,

28. The sultana of seas and travels,
The queen of youth and vivacity,

29. The pearl of thrones and crowns,
And the ambition of Greece and Rome,

30. Standing like an abandoned ruin
On the waters of the shore in Tyr.