1. نادمته والثريا في مطالعها

    كأسٌ وفي الغرب عنقودٌ من العنب

    I drank with him while the Pleiades, at their rising,

    were a cup, and in the west a cluster of grapes,

  2. حتى أفاق صباح الأفق ثم بدا

    بوجه زنجيةٍ باللاذ منتقب

    until the horizon’s dawn awoke, then appeared

    with a black woman’s face, veiled in red silk.