1. My passion's pattern in love refined
In loving, my rapture has no defined creed

2. Will you give me over to parting and estrangement, my destroyer?
While your love for me amid people widely spread

3. So who can intercede for me with my Master
Numan’s cheeks to the anemones likened

4. I stood still as my eyes flowed with tears
With the coquetries of love orderly arrayed

5. A bough of straight, fair sidr is his neighbor
Does accord not delight sans dismay?

6. A cheek exulting in my death with love
While proof in meaning for me precisely laid

7. When his glance warmed, cold his saliva ran
And the fire of my fervor for him kindled

8. The water of beauty sighed in joy
And to hearing from him words polished played

9. A gazelle, kohl-eyed, consummate in beauty
But in nature a wily fox portrayed

10. Since lovers beheld his army of beauty
With war on cheeks for him they pined

11. The glance in drunkenness by him enslaved
For lovers, O my boon companions take heed

12. How often said I when an enchantress glanced at him
Lo, it is sorcery, a door well assayed!

13. How many a night spent in Mosul’s company
Where my tongue began to chant and sing his praise

14. I performed the rites of love for him yet never
Saw another of people for him keen