1. يا فِلقَ فَمٍ كشقَّةٍ في شَعرَه

    لا قلت كمن أَنعم فيهِ نظرَه

    O cleft of a mouth, like a slit in a hair!

    No—I spoke as one who had looked closely at it.

  2. قَد قلت وَدون صِغرِهِ الخَطُّ بَدا

    ما الواحِدُ من حسنك إِلّا عَشَرَه

    I said, as the line of down appeared beneath that tiny mouth:

    In your beauty, ‘one’ is nothing but ‘ten.’