1. ومُرَنَّحِ الأعطافِ تحسَبُ أنّهُ

    رُمحٌ ولكن قَدَّ قلبِىَ قَدُّهُ

    And one with swaying flanks, whom you would think

    a spear—yet his stature has cleft my heart.

  2. إن قلتُ إن الوجهَ منه جنَّةٌ

    أضحى يُكذِّبُنى هُنالِكَ خَدُّه

    If I say that his face is a paradise,

    his cheek thereupon gives me the lie.

  3. ولئن ترقرقَ دمعُه يوم النَّوى

    فى الطَّرفِ منه وما تناثَر عِقدُهُ

    And even if his tears well up on the day of parting

    in his eye, their necklace still unscattered,

  4. فالسَّيفُ أقطعُ ما يكونُ إذا غدا

    مُتحيِّراً فى صَفحتَيهِ فِرندُهُ

    a sword is sharpest when

    its watered pattern wavers on its two faces.