وحوراء غدت باللح

ظ للعشاق قتاله

The maidens are bashful as the desert dawn

To lovers, their glances deal fatal blows

فكم من قائلٍ حين

رآها وهي مختاله

How many a suitor when he saw her glide

Swaying with pride fell captive to love's throes

أفي أجفانها المرضى

من القاررة شبا له

Do her heavy eyelids that ache with disease

Harbor for him fires that incessantly glow?

بدت ما بين أترابٍ

لها كالبدر في الهاله

She seemed mid her friends like the moon in its halo

Robed in the hues of the reddening clouds' glow

عليها من ثياب الصو

ن ما تسحب أذياله

The train of her gown furrowed the soft sand

As she gracefully walked with a languid tread

أيا ظبية بطن الخي

ف ضيف رام إنزاله

O doe of the vale, a guest hopes to meet you

The hollow is near, soon his goods will be unloaded

قراه قبلة فالبي

ن قد قرب أحماله

Its directed to kiss you, for the tryst was so decided

Though many urged love, I listened not to what they said

فكلم لاحٍ على حبي

ك لم أصغ لما قاله

For lovers must daringly breach all bounds

And disregard the reproofs of even the wise and staid

ومن سنة من يعش

ق أن يعصي عذاله