1. It was not an arrow that missed, but a loving gazelle
Even if it did not kill my heart, it has wounded it

2. It brought beauty, wanting our souls in exchange
So we traded it as it suggested

3. The gardens of the valley were scented with it
Take me away from the garden's edge when it blows

4. The sweat of endeavor poured out his youthful water
And the rose's scent is finer than what dripped

5. In his neck is a bead of ambergris
It did not neglect me, though not counting beads

6. And as for his gait, he walks with pride at times
And sometimes he graces gently from frivolity

7. And meetings with me amidst his threats
My tear mingled with that of the wine cup

8. I will share his love if he is faithful
And be stingy with solace if he is forgiving

9. Rebuke wandered in youth, how could it be
That your prohibition of the worst company reform him

10. Twenty five seems corrupt
Even if forty passes and does not improve

11. You thought me deluded that I
Awaken while the absurd discarded assumption

12. Like a lion made daring with his grin
So he approached and ask what has matured

13. And the companion sought to mimic the clouds
With his hands, surely look how he is exposed

14. Competing with them, almost drowning in them
With generosity, though swimming in it

15. Al-Hussein was not prevented from honor
Nor did the palm of time grant and bestow

16. If he intends, he sees his goal with his wisdom
Like an eye that reaches its light wherever it throws

17. Or is serious in an address sufficient for him
While his face smiles and his envier jokes

18. How many favors did not distract him from devotion
And abstaining a year did not make him indulge when it opened

19. And an innocent maiden he spent the night entertaining
And a morning with disheveled hair he then woke

20. Gently test him and say in his fire
When ignited though it has burned you with what it blew

21. And his anklet would clatter, you would be doomed
So where would your pillar be if he stamps?

22. With me, the sword would roar until if
It had a voice that day, it would have barked

23. And your steed complained of the strain on it
When at rest, still not eased under you

24. An eye accustomed, if it pursued, not
The north wind over it, its rider knelt

25. And the most flirtatious, the day he is adorned, his face
Dawns the blossoms of the planets, standing or resting

26. And the well-mannered, whose limbs do not sway
His sides, as if the boy did not feel or touch

27. So it equaled whether he took off the halter and let
Arrogance run wild, or held back the stirrup

28. And you have the abode, you visited it, and the palm trees
Stooping, before your den they are as if barking

29. And the opinion most perplexed by what is right
None but you acted correctly, even if it advised, it would not have counseled well

30. Will you blame me for gratitude I owed you
If my tongue of thanks falls short or strains?

31. Forgive when I fall short of your praise
For I am more worthy if I reach you with praise

32. This, and your power did not reduce my imagination
What came to it freely, with no toil

33. How many sleepless nights for lovers I spent
Waiting for his rooster to crow until dawn broke

34. And the dark night gives birth to my thought
Jealous of the morning when daylight spreads

35. And you, pleased with it, made me eloquent
And by honoring, expanded my chest, so it eased

36. And you forgot what you gave me, though in them
God forbid! Who when gives, grasps?

37. For others the cheap given freely in
Its cheapness, and for you the unique and savory