أَباحَ لِطَيفي طَيفُها في الكَرى الخَدّ

فَعَضَّ بِهِ تُفاحَةً وَاِجتَنى وَردا

Her charming apparition graced the cheeks in the settlements

And so she bit an apple and plucked a rose

وَألمَتني ثَغراً شَمَمتُ نَسيمهُ

فَخُيِّلَ لي أَنّي شَمَمتُ بِهِ نَدّا

And a mouth that I breathed in its breeze enthralled me

I imagined I breathed in it pleasure from intimacy

وَلَو قَدَرَت زارَت عَلى حال يَقظَةٍ

وَلَكِن حِجابُ البَينِ ما بَينَنا مُدّا

If she could, she would visit in a state of wakefulness

But the veil of separation is extended between us

أَما وَجَدَت عَنّا الشؤونُ مُعَرَّجا

وَلا وَجَدَت مِنّا خُطوبُ النَوى بُدّا

Neither did our affairs find crookedness

Nor did the worries of purpose find in us any deviation

سَقى اللَهُ صَوبَ القَطر أَمَّ عُبَيدَةٍ

كَما قَد سَقَت قَلبي عَلى حَرِّه بَردا

May Allah water the direction of the rain clouds, or Ubaydah's

As it has watered my heart in its heat with coldness

هيَ الظَبيُ جيداً وَالغَزالَةُ مُقلَةً

وَرَوضُ الرُبى فَوحا وَغُصن الَّتي قَدّا

She is the gazelle in beauty and the doe eyed

And the meadow of pasture land lush and the branch that was picked