1. Your cheeks' beauty is not boasted by the earrings,
For in my passionate heart there is abundant fire.

2. Neither by ornaments, for by my face they
Have increased, behold this ornament and ornament maker!

3. Nor by the bending of my waist towards it,
Both appear similar, which of them is borrowed?

4. Rather, your pride is that I could not
Refrain from you, as you refrained patience from me.

5. And love singled me out, away from you,
As if it loves you from where it was jealous.

6. Or not, for it is a law, and passion
Defeats the armored one and the one wearing robe.

7. I was surprised by one who desired her glance
That my eyes recoil from it broken.

8. Is there then any dispute that she is
The sun of morning from which eyelids avert?

9. A light that has in the cheek fire within us,
And can light be without fire?

10. They said you stayed up at night, so sleep in the morning,
Who stays up at night, sleeps in the day.

11. So I said, enough! I have no morning,
For that is my sun that never ceased to hide.

12. It declined, so this night from her hair
Does not clear except with a face that illuminated.

13. Or with black ink, from one who has
In it meanings, like the morning with its burst.

14. A hand writes it, wishing to remain
In a pen through which it seeks closeness.

15. It almost does not flow, but it is
Shy of the flowing of the exquisite.

16. A sea, the seas of poetry flow through it
O you who saw in the sea seas flow!

17. A brother in affection, steadfast, not like
Flowers, but like the rock in its firmness.

18. And the good manners of his praiser
A miracle he scarcely could match.

19. Whoever among them obtained it, we call him
Al-Mutanabbi, so the best, the best!

20. You possessed my heart when you possessed me
To you in both cases a pride.

21. A love we agreed upon, because
We knew ourselves through testing.

22. I realized it, so take back my heart, and take
Your heart, or if you wish, leave me the choice.