1. أقول له ما كان خدك هكذا

    ولا الصدغ حتى سال في الشفق الدجا

    I say to him, “Your cheek was not like this,

    nor your temple-lock, until darkness flowed into the twilight glow.

  2. فمن أين كان الحسن من قبل قالي لي

    تفتح وردي والعذارُ تخرجا

    Where, then, did beauty come from before?” He said to me:

    “My rose has blossomed, and the cheek-down has grown out.”