فلق الملاحة من جبينك لاحا

وكفى به فلقاً فهات الراحا

The navigation has split open your radiant forehead

And that split is enough, so grant some comfort

واشفع برياها عبيراً ثانياً

من طيب فيك يضاعف الأفراحا

And add to it a second gentle breeze

Of your sweetness that redoubles joys

طاب الصبوح على صباحتك التي

قبل الصباح جلت علي صباحا

The dawn has been good on your morning

That before the dawn has shone a morning upon me

وعلى حدائقنا التي ثنى بها

فوك الشقيق وخدك التفاحا

And upon our gardens in which

The anemones and your apple-like cheek have flourished

سبحان من جعل العذار حمائلاً

لك والجفون الفاتكات سلاحا

Glory to Him who made your excuses burdens

For you, and your swooping eyelids weapons

وأذلني وأعز مقلتك التي

ملأت قلوب العاشعين جراحا

And He humbled me and honored your glance that

Has filled the hearts of lovers with wounds

سلمتها قلبي الجريح كأنها

سلت لتنصرني عليك صفاحا

I handed my wounded heart to it as if

It had been sent to help me against you as intercession

وهي التي ولت هواك على الحشى

فأحل سفك دمي لها وأباحا

And it is the one that inclined your love in my breast

So my blood being shed for it became permitted

حتام أطمع منك بالرشإ الذي

لا قيت منه سميذعاً جحجاحا

I still hope for the downpour from you

That I have not gotten a small drizzle from

وإذا نظرت إلى تموج ردفه

هزت معاطفه علي رماحا

And when I look at the billowing of its expanse

It shook its coats at me like spears

وكأن خنصره لرقة خصره

ألقى بخاتمه فصار وشاحا

And as if its delicate slender waist

Cast its ring off so it became a wrap

يا رب أنت خلقت من ألحاظه

شركاً يكبل شادناً ورداحا

O Lord you created from its glances

A partnership that fetters one who is free and at ease

وملأتها حوراً لتترع ناظري

سهراً وتملأه بكاً ونواحا

And you filled it with houris to graze my sight

Staying up through the night, filling it with crying and wailing

فامنن علي بكيمياء رضابه

لتعود أتراحي به أفراحا

So favor me with the alchemy of its gaze

To return my injuries into joys