1. I see one whose charm is unmatched
Bewitching with a glance or blink of his eye

2. Many a wounded heart unhealed by yearning
Many a foe in love left unappeased

3. My body still as if in slumber
My heart aflutter like his eyelid

4. Toward my hair came praise for its beauty
Perhaps after he'll send words of affection

5. Many the pleas my lips make when they meet
With kisses or when paused at his halt

6. I kissed his cheek thousands of times
But after thousands what's one more kiss?

7. The kisses faded not his rosy cheek
But through them my palm's henna paled away

8. The gold coin of his cheek I hoarded
For I'm miserly, freely I do not spend it

9. The sultan of beauty, the imam of charm
When beauty prays, its loveliness leads the ranks

10. I all but melt from sadness or from his glance
Yet his eyelid denies such weakness coyly

11. That broken lid reveals his frailty
I sipped a cup that almost from my waist

12. Parted my soul called to its draft