1. The shores of Alexandria are good
Summer is for lovers and the infatuated here

2. They fled the houses to you, scorched by the blaze
When the heat intensified in them like fires

3. And came to you carrying their love and passion
Sheltered by your cool shade

4. O my rectangle, the best of rectangles, I
Unlike rectangles, am madly in love with you

5. You made me forget my distant homeland
Although it was first, you are second to me

6. But my beloved is here, and I
A beloved's homeland is dearer than my own lands

7. How many sessions I've had alone with you, complaining
Like the complaints of friends to friends

8. I cry a child's cries until I'm done
With tears that ulcerate the eyelids

9. The sorrowful tires his eyes with tears, so when
They're dry, that's the end of sorrows

10. And patience is the best the heart has gained
When fate stirs it with events

11. But what good is it when below it
Is the spite of fate and wrath of times?

12. The sea's vast expanse is like
An intimate, joyful, and safe chest

13. The wind's gentle gusts are delicate
Like the sighs of a soft, flexible lamenter

14. The sun blazes in the sky recklessly
To these clouds like smoke

15. It sent rays into the depths of the seas
Making them depths of snakes

16. Infinity in its distant sky
And infinity in the near horizon

17. Two seas of skin and water, and in
The furthest horizon, the stirring of both seas

18. The eye is taken by splendor as though
It witnessed the descent of inspiration and paradise

19. O sea, the waves in you surge
My heart pounds like your worry

20. And your foundation is like mine, turbulent
My chest and yours are both vast with sorrow

21. These long shores of yours
Are the walkway of love and stage of gazelles

22. They erected summer pavilions in rows
Lined up like a necklace's beads

23. One of them doffed her clothes in happiness
And her eyes saw the manifestation of her beauty

24. She came to you naked, wearing nothing
But the whiteness of her mesmerizing beauty

25. She threw herself into you and frolicked
In the water among friends and flirts

26. Never has saltiness and sweetness
Been joined without mixing, as it did then

27. You're the close sky which unveiled
The star of faces upon your flowing waters

28. You're the garden which created
A wondrous flower, the blossom of every garden

29. These are your birds, chattering
With laughter and play in your reassurance

30. Those standing, their bodies idols
Which the worship of idols revived

31. Those walking slowly and gently
Their limbs soft bodies

32. Those sitting atop the rocks like flowers
In gardens, their buds bent over

33. The tree of life on the sands, their fruits
The finest apples and pomegranates

34. Those swimming slender in their motions
Exquisitely composed and proficient

35. You're wealthy, containing treasures
Beyond pearls and coral's riches

36. These are your beautiful brides
Endowed with beauty and favor

37. Frolicking in your waters as
Humayya played with the wine-filled cup

38. They emerge from you adorned with pearls
Like flowers, their cheeks infused with splendor

39. But they are flirts, done with
All that beautifies, for they are wanton

40. In you, Saada shines like a sun whose orb
Is my heart, and yours - we are brothers

41. Poetry pouring golden rays
And the body pouring light and glitter

42. My happiness set into the sunset and faced
My Saadi, as moons face each other

43. There they gaze at one another while
The evening sun tilts in the balance

44. She melted in shyness and disappeared, after which
The horizon released its red curtain

45. Saada walked as if an angel moving
Among the Houris and youths in eternity

46. My wish and my desire - what harm if
We walked like two companions?

47. With interlocked fingers, like kings
Gazing at each other, exchanging passions in our eyes

48. Sipping our love in our looks
Embracing like branches

49. Forgetting both worlds and what's in them
And people most deserving of forgetfulness

50. O sea, evening has come dragging
Its train spreading through the cosmos

51. People stroll heedlessly like
A slow spectator loitering

52. Old, young, children - all
Of different clothes and colors

53. Life sketches humans' happiness
In the faces of maidens and lads

54. The cheer of youth defeats
Like a breeze shaking branches

55. Boys skirmish as
Birds in the nests skirmish

56. A child like scattered pearls, filling hearts,
The safety of the happy and agility of fawns

57. They have no desires or wishes
For misery itself is desires and wishes

58. Unconcerned with life's woes, for
In play is all the joy of boys

59. Until the star shines by name
In the horizon, looking confused

60. All head to their homes, and after
Meeting, bid you farewell

61. O sea, life itself is constant worry
Of bonding, parting, and drawing near

62. You're time, and each life a drop
Alas, seeping the thirsty one's throat

63. The soul like stretched shores
Whose visitors are human passions

64. And the heart your deep turbulence, it's
The harbor of stillness and source of tyranny

65. As for life, and you its symbol
It is attracted and gives meaning to you

66. O sea, ebb and flow, for you're like it
Ephemeral, and like you all things ephemeral