1. مخدّرة مَكنونة قَد تَكَشَفَت

    كَراهِبَة بَينَ الحِسان الأَوانس

    A secluded, hidden maiden has unveiled herself,

    like a nun among beautiful young maidens.

  2. وَأَترابها يلبَسنَ بيض غَلائل

    هِيَ العُرى مَقرور بِها كُل لابس

    And her peers wear white, gauzy robes—

    nakedness itself; every wearer shivers in them.

  3. مُشَعشعة مرهاء ما خلت إِنَّني

    أَرى مثلها عَذراء في زيِّ عانس

    Water-mingled, with unkohled eyes—I never thought that I

    would see one like her: a virgin in a spinster’s guise.