1. The passing spring breeze stirred up love's passion,
Calling out to one sleeping atop the tree's branches.

2. So break out in song and delight your soul, arouse desire,
Ignite passion, care, fervor - renew your fervor!

3. I have for you naught but memories of love's sanctuary, which
Bring me sorrow for you or sorrow from you.

4. Time's pact drank from our covenant's cup
While fate's clouds poured down no more than their fill.

5. Times of intimacy - when I spend the night remembering them
I find their specter has stolen into my heart.

6. Days when play's branches were near,
Their shade and wellspring of concord limpid.

7. When we asked God, He would grant us
Pardons and we would revel in our pleasures.

8. O days of mine, bygone epochs,
O pact with love's sanctuary, bygone epochs!

9. Abodes from my eyes though gone,
Still my heart turns toward them, yearning.

10. I ransom the gazelles grazing their pastures,
I befriended them - my passions have befriended them.

11. Until, by God, those two luminous moons
Had they resolved to veil me, I'd not believe they eclipsed!

12. At the languor of every doe-eyed one, when
She sings, I make my heart her target.

13. I did not know the branch was her stature
Till I plucked fruit from her pomegranate hand.

14. I witnessed not that her saliva was honey
Till I gained through it, for people, healing.

15. My love continues harmoniously while
My body continues diversely anguished.

16. No reproacher increased reproaches against her
But that my heart increased its passion for her.

17. Would that those who reproach me taste passion so that
Among them, the reproached empathize!

18. As if, when they came to me, some tribe
Of demonic singers were set against me.

19. I seek refuge in love from one no fervor moved
For singing girls, and who did not excuse their finesse.

20. I have a gazelle seducing me with his eyes
Until, when he'd had his fill of my heart, he turned away.

21. I kept faith, he broke it; I was true, he betrayed;
I loved him - aloof he remained.

22. Sweet of glance, quintessence of lips - you'd think him
A cup of wine over which pearl drops sprayed.

23. Softly swaying, if the morning breeze toyed
With his locks, it would bend them gently toward us.

24. I gather the fruit of his cheek in a glance, then when
He sleeps, I scatter his redolence, confessing.

25. So O critic, leave off your claims against
Motee, who commits no crime, no disgrace!

26. What is it to me, when I have a nature
Of chastity from love that nurtures souls nobly?

27. These are souls of noble traits - through them
Is triumph for one who traverses God's safe sea.

28. My friend, when you see his image, you say
Blessed is God! This one's singular in his successors!

29. Generosity has died. Its people mourned it, so you see
No monument to it but its vestiges.

30. He has virtues raising his rank -
The turns of fate strewn jewels in his path.

31. Perfections have encompassed his being's expanse -
Who halts at his door is triumphant.

32. Were he in need atop the sky, he would settle it
Were he asked, he would suffice. Were he sinned, he'd pardon.

33. He gives thousands and ten thousands in plenty -
Not stingily spending nor extravagantly.

34. That prince, by God's command, stood up
On feet firm in resolve, distinguished in prohibition.

35. Had one come to us after the best of creation with news
God would have sent down scriptures praising him!

36. In ferocity, a lion; in bounty, a pouring rain;
In radiance, a rising moon; in nobility, a morning sun.

37. An awe appeared to the enemies through him
That almost terrified the seeds in their loins.

38. Ask of the processions, the whites of lances,
The bared blades, the armies that marched -

39. Reports of his superior merit beyond events
Time has ever sworn to truly.

40. They dictate to you seamless traditions
With pearls filling up your ears.

41. A day he charged at the excited throng, plunging in,
Submerging the excited without fearing harm befalling.

42. Among a horde attacking their neighbor - if oppressed
The Pleiades, falling, would eclipse them.

43. Of every most valiant hero who fears no evil,
Even if he tastes destruction's cup, he will not refuse it.

44. As if the flash of their blades and the glint
Of the lightning were a snatching of their enemies' sight.

45. They traversed villages after winning hearts - those villages
As though they were the Wind of Aad when it wreaked havoc.

46. He is their trustee, their commander of
The elite - their nobles have pledged to him.

47. He leads them, lavish with bounty - not chiding steeds.
They knew no rebuke, marching with heads high.

48. My lord, may God efface the tyrants' traces through him
To sever the means for them, every last one!

49. He exalted the sublime - he indeed excelled the exalted.
Above the luxe palace he built chambers.

50. O seal of munificence! O spearhead of eloquence!
O summit of sagacity! Nay, O peak of peaks!

51. To you, an untainted maiden who revealed
Her face to none but you and did not unveil it.

52. Without your praise adorning her with beauty's necklace,
The charm of her meaning would not have delighted nor her wit.

53. She came to give you tidings on the blessed feast
Even as glory, through you, came to congratulate.

54. For you, congratulations! The fast's month when gone
Sent its greetings to your lofty abode and took leave.

55. Had no beholder of your merit among men refused
To roam the earth's expanse covered in dust.

56. So congratulations my ransom - you never ceased
Sending the like of it to guide us smoothly.

57. And sip from cups of joy - pure is its draught!
What a pure, sweet draught to imbibe!

58. Endure in honor and increase in rank and heights -
May God suffice you for what you attained; enough!