1. My heart was unjustly oppressed, and she did not make amends
I wish I knew who she intended with her love

2. Haifa, how many livers have you killed with abandonment
And how many hearts did you shoot the day you bent your bow

3. By Allah, I won't ask about her love
Even if my heart melted from passion when I questioned

4. With her abandonment, I cheapened my murder and her cheek
Its fire blazed in my heart and was stoked

5. The softness of her charm, her coquetry leaned towards her
As if her charms were drunk with sweetness

6. You see her as a full moon when she leans on a branch
So sculpt for her a posture, she carried the full moon of Duja

7. The branches conveyed to the waist the tale of her inclination
Honestly telling what she related

8. What of the gazelle if she bolted, what of the branch if it stirred
What of dawn if it departed, what of night if it draped

9. If the full moon appeared, it would not shine from shyness
And the sun, when spied in the morning, darkened

10. The blossoming narcissus averted its gaze from her
Ashamed, while the rose's cheeks blushed

11. She went ahead of my peers empty-handed
And busied my heart with her contrary love

12. I wore what I picked of her glances
And with what swayed of her charm I was fettered

13. And she left me dying of love for her
And I don't know why with love she killed me

14. A queen with treasures of beauty tempting
But with that coin of her cheek she was stingy

15. Sorceress of the eyelid, wantonly playing with glances
As if her eyes were lined with magic

16. No - may God take those eyes for what
their swords have done to us and what they did

17. I wonder how she claims to be like Layla* to her admirers
When she has killed in her glances

18. She tailored with my body the clothes of sickness, twining them
Don't you see how her lashes spun them?