أَلِفَ الصُّدُودَ وَحينَ أَسرَفَ أَسعَفا

فَاِزْوَرَّ عَتْباً ثمَّ زارَ تَعَطُّفا

He endured estrangement and when he was excessive, he was forgiving.

So he overlooked the reproach, then he visited being gentle.

لَبِسَ الدُّجَى في لَيلَةٍ هوَ بَدرُها

وَالبَدْرُ أَشهَرُ ما يَكونُ إِذا اِختَفى

He wore the darkness on a night of which he was the full moon.

And the full moon is the most well-known when it is obscured.

طَلَع الهِلالُ وَقَد بَدا مُتَلَثّماً

حَتّى إِذا حَسَرَ اللِّثامَ تَنصَّفا

The crescent appeared while still veiled.

Until when it unveiled its wrap, it became impartial.

يا طَرْفَهُ ما لي أَراكَ خلَقت لي

داءً فَهَلّا كنت لي مِنه شفا

Oh you whose glance afflicts me, why did you create me for myself

A disease, so why were you not healing for me from it?

واهي مَناط الخَصْرِ سُنَّةُ عَيْنِهِ

تقْتَصُّ في قتل النُّفُوس وتُقْتَفَى

The thinness of his waist is the way of his eye.

It takes lives in killing and is taken.

يَبدو فَتَقرأُ في صَحيفَةِ خَدِّهِ

من مَشْقِ أقلامِ المَلاحةِ أحرُفا

It appears so you read in the parchment of his cheek

From the labor of the pens of saltiness, letters.

ذو وَجْنَةٍ نُقِشَتْ بنُقْطَة خالِهِ

ونباتِ عارِضِه فَخيلَتْ مُصْحَفَا

One with a mole etched by the dot of his mole

And the growth of his cheek, so it imagined a book.