1. ألست ترى الصبحَ قد أسفرا

    ومبتكرَ الغيثِ قد أمطرا

    Do you not see that dawn has broken,

    And the early rain has poured down?

  2. وأسفرت الأرضُ عن حُلَّةٍ

    تُضاحكُ بالأحمرِ الأصفرا

    And the earth has unveiled a robe

    Whose red trades smiles with yellow.

  3. ووافاك نيسانُ في وَردِه

    وحثَّك في الشرب كي تَسكرا

    And Nisan has come to you in its roses,

    And urged you to drink, that you might grow drunk,

  4. وتعملَ كأسين في فِتيَةٍ

    تُطارد بالأصغر الأكبرا

    And ply two cups among young men,

    Chasing the larger with the smaller.

  5. يحثُّ كئوسهم مُخطَفٌ

    تُجاذِبُ أردافُه المِئزَرا

    A slender-waisted youth urges on their cups;

    His buttocks tug against his waistcloth.

  6. ترجل بالبانِ حتى إذا

    أدارَ غدائرَه وفَّرا

    He combed his hair with ben oil, until

    He had coiled his locks and made them luxuriant,

  7. وفضَّضَ في الجلّنارِ البها

    رَ والآبنوسةَ والعَبهَرا

    And strewed like silver amid pomegranate blossoms the oxeye

    Daisy, the ebony, and the narcissus.

  8. فلما تمازجَ ما شذَّرَت

    مقاريضُ أطرافِه شذَّرا

    Then, when the fragments had mingled—those snipped

    By the scissors of his fingertips—he scattered them.

  9. فكلٌّ ينافس في بِرِّه

    ليفعلَ في ذاته المُنكَرا

    So each vies in kindness to him,

    To do what is forbidden with his body.