1. My love, her beauty commands
Like a sun-body above a moon-face

2. A pearl shaped in human form
Delight of my eye, light of my sight

3.
How can I be patient with you

4. My gazelle, grazing in my heart
Who made it lawful to kill me

5. You sent above the cheek a branch
With it lovers fell down

6. Not knowing Khalid from Amr
O you who surpass the full moon in perfection

7. Do you have any tenderness for my passion
O beloved, besides you I have nothing

8. If I spent all I have on you
With a glance at you, you enriched my poverty

9. Beauty is matchless
And everything graced by it is beautiful

10. The soul always inclines toward it
And the noble has for it the lowly

11. In captivity of its prohibition and command
A lovely, good-natured beloved

12. Of beautiful morals and manners
And delight of sights and sounds

13. Whoever describes her is heedful
Her beauty has bewildered my mind

14. By the right of the passion in my mind
And the anxieties in my heart

15. Reach the one hurt by prolonged ardour
Who found no cure for his malady