1. لا ومكانِ الصليبِ في النَّحْرِ من

    ك ومجرى الزنّارِ في الخَصْرِ

    No—by the place of the cross upon your throat,

    and by the girdle’s course about your waist,

  2. والعسليِّ الذي ارتديت به

    كما تردَّى القضيبُ بالزَّهْر

    and by the honey-colored garment in which you robed yourself,

    as a bough robes itself in blossoms,

  3. والحلقِ المستديرِ من سَبَجٍ

    على الجبين المَصُوغِ من دُرِّ

    and by the rounded ringlets of jet

    upon the forehead fashioned of pearls,

  4. وحاجبٍ خَطَّ شَطْرَهُ قَلَمُ ال

    حُسْنِ بحبرِ البهاءِ لا الحبر

    and by an eyebrow whose half was traced by the pen of

    beauty, with the ink of splendor, not ordinary ink,

  5. وَسُكْرِ أجفانك التي حَلَفَ ال

    فتورُ ألاَّ تُفيقَ منْ سُكْر

    and by the drunkenness of your eyelids, which

    languor swore would never sober from drunkenness,

  6. والخال في الخدِّ إِذ أُشَبِّهُهُ

    زهرةَ مِسْكٍ على ثرى تبر

    and by the mole upon the cheek, as I liken it

    to a blossom of musk upon soil of gold dust,

  7. وأقحوانٍ بفيك مُنْتَظَمٍ

    على شبيهِ الغديرِ من خَمْر

    and by daisies arrayed in your mouth

    upon what resembles a pool of wine—

  8. ما صبَّرَ الشوقُ لي فأصبرُ يا

    مَنْ حُسْنُهُ قِلَّةُ الصَّبْر

    longing has given me no patience that I might endure, O

    you whose beauty leaves me little patience.