وسِرْبٍ من الآنسات الحِسِان

غوالي الوصالِ رِخاص الصدودِ

A flock of beauties, intimates of union

Cheap to attain, difficult to avoid

سَرَقن الرياضَ حُلَى رَقْمها

ونَمْنَمْنَها تحت وَشْي البُرُودِ

Stole the garden's adornments with their charm

And murmured beneath its shady trees

فصيَّرن نرجِسَها أَعْيُناً

وأوهبن أغصانها للقدودِ

Turning its narcissi into eyes

And bestowing its boughs to waists

ونِطْن شقائقها بالخدود

فدبَّجْنَ طرْزَ بياض الخدودِ

Bedecking its anemones on cheeks

Embroidering the embroidery of white cheeks

ولمّا فَتَرن بألحاظهنْ

نَ أَنشَبنْ نُشَّابَها في الكُبُودِ

And when they winked with their glances

They planted its saplings in bosoms

فأعجِب بها من سهام جَرَحن

قلوبا ولم تعترض بالجلودِ

Amazing those whose hearts they wounded

With arrows that penetrated without armor

وما كنت أحسب أنّ العيون

جوارح فوق جِراح الحديد

I would not have thought eyes could be

Deadly weapons, beyond iron blades