1. O house whose prosperity endures
My Lord has watered you with the choicest rain

2. Coming in torrents from every valley
In constant succession of pouring rain

3. The beasts flock to it eagerly
And birds in droves from the hilltops

4. My liver quivered for you in passion
And cracked with a crack beyond mending

5. You left me easy prey for slanderers
Like meat left out for flies to feed on

6. Secrecy is gone and you know full well
I make no secret of my love for you

7. I hid it until my skin peeled off
And my heart was laid bare and my blood spilled

8. O fairest of all creation
Most perfect in step

9. The forbearing one sighs for the joy of her beauty
Adding pain to his pain

10. Baring twin limbs cooler than ice
Revealing beauty in a smiling face

11. Like the black of night in the thickening gloom
The wings of nightfall shine in the darkness

12. Soft thighs pleasing to the eye
Without blemish or break

13. Who gestures with a moistened palm
And fingers dripping like ripe fruit

14. And eyebrows like a Arabic letter noon
Drawn with a pen

15. Her cheek the cheek of a weaver
Leaning toward a well-woven cloak

16. Rose-red like the prayer niche
And curved like the arc of a bow

17. When she sleeps, her saliva seems
A gentle breeze with the sweetest scent