1. ومشتملٍ بالحسن أحوى مهفهف

    قضى رجع طرفي من محاسنه الوطرْ

    And one cloaked in beauty, dusky and slender-waisted—

    My returning gaze had its fill of his charms.

  2. فأبصرتُ أشباه الرياض محاسناً

    وفي خده جرحٌ بدا منه لي أثرْ

    So I beheld beauties resembling gardens,

    And on his cheek I saw the trace of a wound.

  3. فقلتُ لجلاسي خذوا الحذر إنما

    به وَصَبٌ من أسهم الغنج والحوَرْ

    So I said to my companions: Take heed, for only

    The arrows of coquetry and dark-eyed beauty have caused his pain.

  4. ويا وجنة قد جاورتْ سيف لحظه

    ومن شأنها تدمى من اللمح بالبصرْ

    And O cheek that has dwelt beside the sword of his glance,

    And it is its nature to bleed from a fleeting glance.

  5. تخيْلَ للعينين جرحاً وإنما

    بدا كلفٌ منه على صفحة القمرْ

    It seemed a wound to both eyes; yet only

    A dark blemish of his appeared on the face of the moon.