صنم تصوَّر أحسنَ التصويرِ

في الحسن قد أمسى بغير نظيرِ

An idol imagined in the best imagination

In beauty he has become peerless

اللَهُ صوَّره بديعَ محاسنٍ

كيما يكون نموذجاً للحورِ

Allah shaped him with wonderful beauty

That he may be a model for the houris

فلذاكَ زخرف وجهَه بدقائقٍ

فتنت وكحَّلَ طرفَه بفتورِ

Therefore He adorned his face with subtleties

That seduced, and lined his eyes with languor

وكأنَّ عارضَه صفيحةُ جوهرٍ

متنمنماً فيها عِذارَ غَريرِ

As if his cheek were a plate of jewels

With pearls glittering on it

قد خطَّ فيه الشَّكلُ خَطَّ لبَاقَةٍ

منقوشةٍ من ظلمةٍ في نورِ

In it form has drawn a line of elegance

Engraved from darkness into light

فالآن يُعذرُ من يهيم بحبِّه

إذ حصَّنَته ملاحةُ التعذيرِ

So now he who is infatuated with his love is excused

Since the cleverness of his apology has fortified him

ماء البشاشة ضاحك في وجههه

أبداً كوجهِ مبشِّرٍ بسرورِ

The water of cheerfulness ever laughs in his face

Like the face of a harbinger of glad tidings

دَلُّ الملاحِ يهزُّه فكأنَّه

وردٌ يُقَبِّل غُرَّةَ المنثورِ

The sway of his coquetry shakes him as if

He were a rose kissing the scattered pearls

كلُّ المِلاح إذا تراه تحسَّروا

حسداً كحسرة عاشقٍ مهجورِ

Whenever the coquettes see him they sigh

With envy like the sigh of a forsaken lover

إني لأحسب حُسنَه متفرِّداً

إذ كان منفرداً بغير نظيرِ

Indeed I reckon his beauty peerless

As it is unmatched and has no peer

كم عاشقٍ بفناء عرصة دارِه

كركوع موسى في فناء الطورِ

How many a lover in the courtyard of his abode

Like the bowing of Moses in the courtyard of Mount Tur

فإذا بدا بلوائه فكأنهم

أسرى وقد بَصُروا بوجهِ أميرِ

When he appears with his banners it is as if they

Were captives who have sighted the face of the prince