1. With lips of weariness and eyes of sleepiness,
Indeed, my soul was created with love for her.

2. The blamers rebuke me for foolishness about her,
Yet I care not for blamers nor feel loneliness.

3. They say you have overvalued love for the slender one,
Can beauty be bought at a paltry price?

4. I have one who, when she sways her supple neck,
Sways nothing but a twig upon a dune.

5. And when she once let down her dangling tresses,
Let down only darkness upon the sun.

6. She says, when she bares the sword of her glance,
"Take heed, O Jinn and mankind!"

7. I plucked fruits of union from the garden of her beauty,
And won the sweetest fruits from the choicest tree.

8. How many a night I wedded with her in her sanctuary,
Surpassing the wedding night in sweet intimacy.

9. I revelled with her before and after carousing
With red wine like rose, yellow like wheat stalk.