1. Her cheeks are like the wings of a dove flapping,
When the sun shines on them, she spreads them like banners.

2. Her bracelets seem to complain of lean times,
So they spent the night as the abandoned tents of nomads, yellow.

3. It's as if he who adorned her white neck with jewels
Tortures her with abandonment and cuts her with pride.

4. It's as if the tall palm trees reaching to the sky
Are shy virgins with plaited hair the color of gold.

5. It's as if the myrtle branches and the wind between them
Are the bodies of gazelles, drunk each time they stir.

6. A garden that fills the soul with joy,
And makes the eyes of onlookers squint with delight.

7. It's as if the produce of the pomegranate tree and its flowers
Are lovers displaying their modesty when brought together.

8. It's as if the lilies at dawn
Are crystal cups filled with silver.

9. It's as if the dewy eyes of the narcissus
Are eyes that shy away from shedding a tear lest it shows.

10. It's as if the yield of the cucumber plant in the gloom of night
Is a gentle breeze visiting its lover secretly.

11. It's as if the water springs are heated cauldrons
Boiling as the pebbles kindled embers beneath them.