1. You emerged from the lofty palace
Like the crescent moon rising at dusk

2. Can a longing lover ever reach you
While you are in the highest sphere?

3. I plucked roses from your cheeks when
I glanced at your bashful face

4. My hand and lips never touched them
Yet I picked them with a furtive gaze

5. If you've veiled your beauty from my eyes
My soul still scents it from afar

6. And if you lift the veil from it
The breeze brings me its sweet fragrance

7. Lean out from a balcony, lean out
And let my blood flow, for death tortures the wretched

8. Either requite a noble love
Or let me die at my balcony

9. Your beauty has power over Nu'man
So torture me with bonds from Uday

10. And your eyes break the army of Kisra
Then my pure blood cannot be shed

11. Wearing black over whiteness
You brought dawn to the dark night

12. By your father's life, I've never seen
Beauty like this, so hide it from the wanton

13. Your beauty stirred me, and I stood still
Yearning toward it like a camel unleashed at dawn

14. O glad tidings of a generous king appearing
Revelation descending upon the Prophet from him

15. I see the most precious gems in the folds
Is this mouth crafted by the jeweler?

16. The temptation of trinkets distracted my heart
A heart's temptation by baubles

17. You laughed while lovers around you lay slain
So with you, might was right

18. Death was before me and behind me
From the hailing arrows of the relentless

19. An Aramean with the glance's arrows
Drawn from my bleeding heart

20. How can I ward off arrows from my chest
That shred the meat of a brave warrior?