لهفي على فاتر الأجفان منعطف

أضحى يكايد غزلاناً وأغصانا

Ah, my longing for a languid-eyed one, swaying!

He now vies with gazelles and boughs.

قاست ذوائبه بالليل حسّده

حتى نضى فإذا بالفرقِ قد بانا

His enviers measured his tresses against the night,

until he doffed [the covering]—then behold: at the parting, the two stood apart.