ومانعٍ للناس من أُنْسِهِ

يغارُ لي منهمْ على نَفْسِهِ

Jealous of them for his own soul

And preventing people from his company.

لمسُ الثريَّا للذي يَنْبَري

لِلَمْسِها أقربُ من لَمْسِه

Touching the Pleiades is for the one who aspires

To touch them, closer than touching him.

كم فَلَكٍ للوصلِ قد دار لي

بِسَعْدِهِ إذ دار لا نُحْسِه

How many orbits has the constellation turned for me

With its happiness when it turns, not its misfortune.

قد كَتَبَ الحسنُ على وجهِهِ

ما لا تملُّ العينُ منْ دَرْسِه

Beauty has inscribed on his face

What the eye does not tire from studying.

لم يُشْفِقِ الله على بَدْرِهِ

حينَ بَرَاهُ لا ولا شَمْسِه

God did not spare his full moon

When He created him without equal or like.