1. كيف للعَين أن ترى

    قمراً في قراطِقِ

    How can the eye behold

    a moon in tunics?

  2. فوق نسرين خدِّه

    حُلَّةٌ من شقائقِ

    Over the musk roses of his cheek

    is a robe of anemones.

  3. بين عينَيه روضَةٌ

    نزهة للخلائقِ

    Between his eyes is a garden,

    a delight for all creation.

  4. مُمتَلي الجسم ما خَلا

    مستَقَرّ المَناطقِ

    His body is well fleshed, except at

    the place where waistbands rest.

  5. أنا واللَهِ وامقٌ

    رَقَّ لي كلُّ وامقِ

    I, by God, am a lover;

    every lover has felt compassion for me.