1. O heavy-eyed one, the charm of youth is magic
Are your eyelashes or the passing of youth more bewitching?

2. The memory of your promise did not let me rest
Except as a harbinger kindling my yearning anew

3. No onlooker has seen in me any refusal
O heart's comfort but them did I refuse

4. Long live the living in a dwelling with you, O moon
Your beauty makes the virtuous shine like the moon

5. O star I have never been able on any day to look at you
A majesty of beauty that dazzles all who look

6. Your visage was never reflected except
In the mirror of the Lord of verse, the incomparable poet

7. The composer, the eloquent, the masterful, the magnificent, the discerning one
The unique, transcendent, unparalleled in his views

8. No wonder, for beauty is narrated from Abu Hasan
And the eye is content when it beholds even a trace

9. My heart's echo rang out when your stranger's beauty
Illuminated the meaning of poetry with brilliant newness

10. You shape the wonders of meaning with your eloquent speech
So we glean from its mirror many images

11. Of each unmatched one, coupled with its fellow
And every slender and tall virgin

12. With it travel the caravans, the guides
You'd think it a morning breeze, gliding by

13. So witness his meanings, witness the beauty they possess
And wonder at his pen, composing such pearls

14. And see in his mirror, O beauty, what it has stamped
Of the aspects of beauty, beloved by all who look

15. And say, if asked when her beauty was recorded
The mirror of the beautiful face where loveliness is seen