شَهِدَتْ لِحُسْنِكَ آيَةٌ لا تُنْكَرُ

خُطَّتْ بِها في صَفْحِ خَدِّكَ أسْطُرُ

A sign of your beauty is witnessed, one cannot deny

Inscribed on the page of your cheek, lines of splendor

أسْرارُ حُسنٍ في صَحيفةِ وَجْنَةٍ

تُوشَى بأقْلامِ الصِّبا وتُحَبَّرُ

Secrets of beauty on the parchment of a delicate cheek

Adorned by the pens of youth and dyed in saffron

فَنَعِيمُ كُلِّ مُتَيَّمٍ وشَقاؤهُ

حَسبُ الَّذي قَدْ خُطَّ فِيها تُقْدَرُ

Thus the bliss and agony of every admirer

Is as per what has been prescribed for him in it

يا مَنْ أغارُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْهُ وإنَّني

مِنِّي عَلَيْهِ عَلى نَواه لأغْيَرُ

O you whom I'm jealous of, yet I

Am more jealous of him for desiring you

لا تَصْدَعَنْ كَبدِي بِجَبْرِ حَواسِدي

فَلطَالَما باتَتْ عَلَيْك تَفَطَّرُ

Do not break my heart with the compulsion of rivals

For long has it been sleepless, and for you, shattered