1. لو كل غانيةٍ تعطى لشهم على

    لمات من بات يهواها وما وصلا

    If every beauty were given to a gallant of high rank,

    whoever spent the night loving her would die without winning her.

  2. فدع مقالة مغبونٍ قد ارتجلا

    ليت الملاح وليت الراح قد جعلا

    So disregard the saying a disappointed man improvised:

    “Would that fair women, and would that wine, were both placed

  3. في جبهة الليث أو في قبة الفلكِ

    on the lion’s brow or in the vault of heaven!”

  4. فهذه منيةٌ جأت بلا سندٍ

    وليس يرضى بها صبٌ وذو رشد

    For this is a wish that came without foundation,

    and neither an ardent lover nor a man of sound judgment approves of it.

  5. ما خصص الحسن والصهباء في أحدٍ

    كي لا يقبل ذا حسنٍ سوى أسدِ

    Beauty and tawny wine were not reserved for any one man,

    such that none but a lion could kiss a beauty,

  6. ولا يطوف بكاساتٍ سوى ملكِ

    and none but an angel could go round bearing cups.