قَبَّلتُه خلسةً من عين راقبه

وَمَسَّ ما مَس من ثغري مُشَنَّفُهُ

I kissed him stealthily away from the watcher's eye,

And he sensed what my yearning lips had sensed.

فأحمرَّ من خَجَلٍ واصفرَّ من وجَلٍ

وحيرةُ الحسن بين الحسن أطرَفُهُ

He blushed from shyness and paled from apprehension,

While the beauty of the beautiful was most charming in its perplexity.