1. وليلة كالرفرف المعلم

    محفوفة الظلماء بالأنجم

    And a night like a patterned coverlet,

    its darkness fringed with stars.

  2. تعلق الصبح بأرجائها

    تعلق الأشقر بالأدهم

    Dawn clung to its edges,

    as a chestnut steed clings to a black one.

  3. عدلت فيها بين خمرين من

    خمر العناقيدِ وخمر الفم

    That night I gave equal due to two wines:

    the wine of grape clusters and the wine of the mouth.

  4. تناول الجام يدي من يَدَيْ

    موشية الراحة والمعصم

    My hand took the goblet from the hands

    of a woman whose palm and wrist were adorned.

  5. شبهت ذوب الراح جامها

    بذوب دينار على درهم

    I likened the liquid wine in its goblet

    to a molten gold dinar upon a silver dirham.