يا واصِفَ الغِلمانِ في شِعرِهِ

أَنتَ وَرَبّي مِنهُمُ الأَوَّلُ

O you who describe the youths in your poetry

O you who describes young men in his verse,

You and my Lord are the best of them

You, by my Lord, are the foremost among them.

وَصَفتَ خَمسينَ فَمَيَّزتَهُم

وَأَنتَ أَنتَ الظِبيَةُ المُغزِلُ

You described fifty, singling them out

You have described fifty and singled them out,

While you, you are the playful gazelle

Yet you yourself are the beguiling gazelle.

عَنّا وَدَعهُم عَنكَ أَو وَصفَهُم

أَنتَ وَرَبّي مِنهُمُ أَجمَلُ

Leave them be, or describing them

Leave them aside, and cease describing them,

You and my Lord are the most beautiful

For you, by my Lord, are more beautiful than they.

يا وَزَّةً تَنقُصُ أَمثالُها

وَقَد تَلاها اللَحِمُ الأَحفَلُ

O cheek dimple that makes its like deficient

O goose whose equal is rarely found,

Though the softest flesh follows it

Followed by the most bountiful flesh,

قَد قُلتُ وَالعُقبَةُ لا تَنقَضي

أُرفُق حَبيبي أَنتَ مُستَعجِلُ

I have spoken, though the difficulty is endless

I have spoken, and the consequences are endless,

Be gentle, my love, you are impatient

Be gentle, my love; you are too hasty.