1. By your essence, the blackness of eyelids is no kohl
Nor did Indian twigs tattoo them

2. But languor in them is sedition
And the beauty you display is splendor

3. You made my hearing ecstatic, my reproacher
As if you were singing

4. And you gave drink to my passions and tears
Is this coquetry or are you challenging?

5. In belts lurks a bosom I roam with desire
And in the shoulders, softness

6. I witnessed in his face a full moon and drew near
Incidents of his glances, a full moon and new moon

7. And they said his cheek is wine and wine
And each of them for his brother an opposite

8. So I said, my purpose in saying sincere
There, yes, and above opposites, friendship

9. And more wondrous than both is a rose and myrtle
And in myrtle there is no rose

10. My tears watered knowledge of his crescent moons
So the beauty of the new moon surpasses myrtle

11. And it saluted the two temples, nothing but
Its dimples, and in it a neck like a pearl necklace

12. Its eloquent words, why not, and the mouth
Of the beautiful is sugar, and saliva, honey?