عِذارُكَ وَالقَوامُ أَقامَ عُذري

شغِفتُ بِهِ وَفيهِ هَتَكتُ ستري

Your blame and firmness established my excuse

I was passionate for it and through it I tore my veil

أَيا شَمسَ المَلاحَةِ كُن لصَبٍّ

يُعايِنُ مِن لِحاظِكَ حَرب بَدرِ

O sun of beauty, be to a lover

Who sees in your glances the battle of Badr

خُلِقتَ لِشَقوَتي حُلوَ التثنى

كَحيلَ المُقلَتَينِ رَقيقَ خَصرِ

You were created for my misery, sweet of waist

Like kohl on the two eyelids, delicate of waist

تُؤَمِّلُ أَن أَعيشَ وَأَنتَ جافٍ

وَكَيفَ يَعيشُ مَن يَبلى بِهَجرِ

You hope I live while you are aloof

How can one live who is worn out by abandonment?

وَكُنتُ عَلى اِحتِمالِ الضَيمِ جَلداً

فَها أنا في الصَبابَةِ أُختُ صَخرِ

I used to be patient of wrong, hardy

Yet here I am in youth a sister of rock