بأبي وغيرِ أبي مخدرةً

ما نولتني وصلَها الحيلُ

By my father and others' fathers intoxicated

I attained not her affection though I schemed

بجفونها من غنجها شركٌ

وبساقها من حجلها حجل

In her eyelids from her coquetry is idolatry

And in her legs from her anklets are anklets

مرَّ الهوى بخمارها فهوى

عنها فقام مقامه الخجل

Love passed by her veil so it fell in love

With her, so in its place shyness stood

وتمايلت فحسبتها قمراً

يجلوه غصنٌ تحته جبل

And she swayed so I reckoned her a moon

Lit by a branch beneath which is a mountain

نادمتها فسمعت من فمها

ملحاً حلت فكأنها قُبَل

I reproached her but heard from her mouth

Salt, so it was as if she were a kiss

ودعوتها للراح فابتعدت

عني تقول لأمِّك الهبل

And I called her to comfort but she distanced

Herself from me, saying to your mother confusion

هذي حرام لست أشربها

شربي حليب النوق يا رجل

This is forbidden, I won't drink it

My drinking is the milk of the camel, O man

واللَه لو شربت لقربها

مني وقربني لها الثَمَل

By God, if I drank to be near it

And it brought me near to her, the thirst