بَدَتْ فَشَدَتْ في مَساقٍ حَسَنْ

فأحسَنْتِ أحْسَنْتِ أُمَّ الحَسَنْ

She appeared, so she allured, in a beautiful gait,

You have embellished, O the most beautiful embellisher,

جُوَيْريةٌ قَدْ جَرَتْ في النُّفو

سِ مَجْرَى ظُبا لَحْظِها في البَدَنْ

A gazelle who has flowed in the softness,

Like the glance of a gazelle in the body.

تُغَنِّي فَتُغنيكَ عَنْ بُلبلٍ

وتَثْنيكَ إمَّا انْثَنتْ عَنْ فَنَنْ

She sings, so she makes you forget the bulbul,

And makes you incline as she inclined from arts.

تُريكَ وتُسْمِعُ ما تَشْتَهي

بِقَدٍّ رَطيبٍ وصَوْتٍ أغَنّْ

She shows you and makes you hear what you desire,

With a delicate waist and a most melodious voice.

كأنَّ مَفاصِلَها الخَيْزُرانُ

فَتَبْدو مِنَ الرَّقْصِ في كُلّ فَنّْ

As if her limbs are of reed,

So she appears in every art of dance.

فَتاةٌ يَفُوتُ النُّهى حُسْنُها

بِها فَتَن الحُبُّ مَن قَدْ فَتَنْ

A girl whose beauty surpasses coyness,

With her beauty, love has seduced whoever is seduced.

تجلَّتْ فَجلَّتْ ضُحىً في دُجاً

فَوَجْهٌ أنارَ وشَعْرٌ دَجَنْ

She appeared brilliantly in the morning light,

So a face illuminated and hair darkened.

لِخَلْخالِها ضَمَّةٌ ما رَآها

سِواهُ من الحِلْيِ إلّا وأنّْ

For her anklet there is a clasp that none

Other than it of jewelry has seen.

أيا ظَبْيَةً في ظُبا لَحْظِها

وفي وَجْنَتيها ضُروبُ المِحَنْ

O gazelle in the glances of gazelles!

And in her cheeks are sorts of tribulations.

تَلافَيْ مُحِبّاً قَضَى نَحْبَهُ

وإنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ قَدْ قَضى فكأنّْ

She meets a lover who has fulfilled his love,

And even if he has not fulfilled, it is as if he has.

إذا لم تَجُودي لهُ بالرِّضا

ولَمْ تَرحَمِيْهِ بوصْلٍ فَمنْ

If you would not be generous to him with acceptance,

And would not have mercy on him with a union, then who?