1. وأهيفَ معسولِ المراشف خلتُه

    وفي وجنتيه للمُدامة عاصرُ

    And a slender youth with honeyed lips—I imagined him

    with a wine-presser at work within his cheeks.

  2. يسيل إلى فيهِ اللذيذ مدامُه

    رحيقاً وقد مرَّت عليه الأعاصرُ

    His wine flows into his sweet mouth,

    pure nectar over which ages have passed.

  3. فيسكر منه عند ذاك قوامه

    فيهتزُّ تيهاً والعيونُ فواترُ

    Then his frame grows drunk on it,

    and sways in pride, while his eyes are languid.

  4. كأنَّ أميرَ النوم يهوى جفونه

    إذا همَّ رفعاً خالفته المحاجرُ

    As though the prince of sleep loved his eyelids:

    whenever he tries to lift them, his eye sockets resist him.

  5. خلوتُ به من بعد ما نام أهله

    وقد غارت الجوزاء والليل ساترُ

    I was alone with him after his household had fallen asleep,

    with al-Jawza already set and night concealing us.

  6. فوسدته كفي وبات معانقي

    إلى أن بدا ضوء من الصبح سافرُ

    I made my palm his pillow, and he spent the night embracing me,

    until dawn's light appeared, unveiled.

  7. فقام يجر البرد منه على تقى

    وقمت ولم تحْلَلْ لإثم مآزرُ

    Then he rose, trailing his cloak in chastity,

    and I rose; no loincloths had been loosened for sin.

  8. كذلك أحلى الحبِّ ما كان فرجُه

    عفيفاً ووصلاً لم تَشِنْه الجرائرُ

    Such is the sweetest love: that whose loins remain

    chaste, and a union that no sins have sullied.