وَلَيْلٍ كَأنَّ الثريا فِيهِ وَقَدْ بَدَا

مُحَيَّا غَزَالٍ أدْعَج الطرف أكْحَلِ

By night that reveals her, as if the Pleiades appeared,

The form of a gazelle with dark languid eye.

كَأنَّ الثريا فِيهِ عقدٌ مُنَظَّمٌ

عَلَى جِيدِ خَوْدٍ في حُلَى الشَّعْرِ تَنْجَلِي

As if the Pleiades that night were a necklace

Strung on the neck of a lovely fawn with ruffled hair.