كأنها حين تخطو في تأودها

قضيب نرجسةٍ في الروض مياس

As if, when she walks in her languor,

As though, when stepping with her supple grace,

She is a narcissus wand in the garden.

She were a narcissus bough swaying gently in the meadow;

كأنما خلدها في قلب عاشقها

ففيه من وقعها خطر ووسواس

As if her image in her lover's heart

As if she dwells forever in the heart of her lover,

Stirs perilous passion and restless care.

Where her footsteps stir sweet peril and whispered longings;

كأنما مشيها مشي الحمامة لا

كد يعاب ولا بطء به باس

As if her gait is the gait of a dove,

As if her gait were the soft tread of a dove,

Beyond reproach, not too fast, not too slow.

Neither marred by hurried strain nor faulted for delay.