1. أَتَملأُ مِن خَدَّيكَ كَأسَ مُدامَةٍ

    وَتَمنَعُني أَن أَقطِفَ الوَردَ مِنهُما

    Do you fill a cup of wine from your cheeks,

    yet forbid me to pluck the roses from them?

  2. فَهَذا بِهَذا في جَميلِكَ أُسوَةٌ

    وَمِثلُكَ مَن أَسدى الجَميلَ مُتَمَّما

    So, in your kindness, this is equal to that,

    and one like you bestows a kindness in full.

  3. يَحلُّ لَنا لَيلاً شَرابِيَ خِلعَةً

    يَفيضُ عَلَينا البُردُ مِنها مُسَهَّما

    By night my wine unfurls for us a robe of honor,

    from which an arrow-patterned mantle spills over us.

  4. إِذا أَشرَقَت شَمسُ الصَباحِ وَأَشرَقَت

    تَعارَضَتا نوراً فَشُكِّكتُ فيهِما

    When the morning sun shines, and she too shines,

    they vie in radiance, leaving me unsure which is which.

  5. سَلوا دارَنا يا أَهلَ دارَةَ بِالحِمى

    فَما ذُكِرَت إِلّا وَصَلّى وَسَلَّما

    Ask our dwelling, O people of Dārah in al-Ḥimā,

    for she is never mentioned without blessings and greetings.

  6. وَكُلُّ صَباحٍ بَعدَ فُرقَتِها دُجىً

    وَكُلُّ لِحاظٍ جالَ في عَينِها عَمى

    And every morning after parting from her is darkness,

    and every gaze that roamed within her eye is blindness.

  7. وَبي ظَمَأٌ لَو كانَ بِالماءِ مِثلُهُ

    شَكا ما شَكَوناهُ إِلَيهِ مِنَ الظَمَا

    And I have a thirst—if water had its like,

    it would lament the thirst we lamented to it.