أما وبياض مبسمك النقيّ
وسمرة مسكة اللعس الشهيّ
Lo, by the whiteness of your pure smiling mouth,
With your pure radiant smile,
and the brown, musky darkness of your delectable lips,
And the dark musk of your soft cheek,
ورمان من الكافور يعلو
عليه طوابع الندّ النديّ
and pomegranates of camphor, above which rise
And pomegranate red lips,
seals of moist nadd perfume,
Adorned with traces of gentle bite,
وقدّ كالقضيب إذا تثنى
خشيت عليه من ثقل الحليّ
and a figure like a slender branch—when it swayed,
Straight as a rod, yet bent with passion,
I feared for it beneath the weight of jewelry.
I fear their weight of jewelry.
تغازلني وتزوي حاجبيها
كما انبرت السهام عن القسيّ
She flirts with me and draws her eyebrows together,
You flirt, raising your eyebrows,
as arrows dart from bows.
Like arrows released from a bow,
ويخترق الصفوفَ بروقُ فيها
وهل يخفى شذا المسك الذكيّ
And the lightning flashes of her mouth pierce the ranks—
Lightning pierces through ranks,
and can the scent of heady musk be hidden?
Can the scent of fine musk be hidden?
Sol 6.1