1. She walked gently, a ring in her ear,
A necklace of gems around her neck.

2. With a crescent adorning her forehead,
She was exalted, like the crescent moon.

3. They came to us in the dark night,
When dawn broke, the overcast cleared.

4. The scent of her perfume filled the dwellings,
Was it musk or ambergris that it exuded?

5. She came swaying with the spindle,
Wandering tipsily in the settlement.

6. She leaned like the soft breeze,
As if a bird's wing fluttered against her.

7. She strode gracefully when walking lovingly,
With a complexion darker than God created.

8. She transcends comparison in beauty,
When the full moon is aligned with her.

9. How can beauty rival her,
When she has nine parts and they only one.

10. And if they say her glance relates the story,
Where is the soft skin, the hair, the figure?

11. Rather, it was the warbling of the wild dove,
Not grasshoppers or beetles that sang.

12. The wild cows roar over her,
While she reigns over the lions forever.

13. By my soul, a girl whose beauty shames the sun,
And for such beauty, envy is praiseworthy.

14. Dawn sprinkles upon her a grace,
Her braids rain musk.

15. At night I pleaded for it to shorten its languor,
And it lengthened, to my hopes it gave breadth.

16. We stayed despite the envious, and between us,
Was a blissful conversation, free of bitterness.

17. She inebriated me with her charm and favor,
With two wines that intoxicated me like no other.

18. I gave her the secret tale of a weeping lover,
Whose tears dropped continually.

19. She leaned but did not stir,
As if she was adorned with a bejeweled necklace.

20. There I attained the fruits of my hopes,
Staying with no vows or conditions between us.

21. I tore off the garb of chastity,
Tossing and turning until waist wrapper and earring met.

22. She did not awaken until the stars aligned
And the branches of the night came alive with disheveled hair.

23. The darkness was illuminated by a candle
Whose light the gloom could not overcome.

24. She rose to bid me farewell, anxious,
While in my soul was an inconsolable agony.

25. She shed copious tears from her sickly eyes,
Jewels they were, though scattered uncared for.

26. She walked in God's name, moving her feet,
When separated, she could barely take a step.

27. She dragged my heart in her love, and it has not ceased
To be in a sea of passion with no shoreline.

28. Parting lit between my wings,
The spark of sorrows which cannot be extinguished.

29. Yes, those nights have passed and gone,
What nearness cannot be matched by separation!

30. By my life, days of union made me forget
Days of woe, ominous and gloomy.

31. I was replaced in the nearness of union by a distance,
My tears cannot erase its inscription.

32. Yearning keeps me awake when a glimmer appears,
Displaying the expanse of night in its glow.

33. It awakens my passion - the leaves of doves
When the watchful is silent, their incessant murmur.

34. I lie like one fallen at Uhud,
While my goal remains beyond reach.

35. If fate persists in separation,
Ever unjust, increasingly severe.

36. I remain faithful to her, true to my vow,
My passion bears witness to some solace.

37. I yearn for a house where its people reside,
For it, they settled in the barren valley.

38. Had carnelian not originated from its soil,
Neither the carnelian mine nor pebbles would have wearied me.

39. I wonder, was she raised secure?
Or did drought befall her green pastures?

40. Do her flocks graze on the meadows' edges
As the threads of life are spun over them?

41. Did her young ones and their mothers enjoy
Their pasture, where there is joy and fortune?

42. I know those settlements, their boughs still shelter,
Their branches still shade and overarch.

43. No absent one there loses his way,
For each moment he reaches its dwellings.