وَلَيْلَةِ أُنْسٍ بَاحَ مِنَّا بهَا الهَوَى

فَهُزَّتْ لِتَرْجِيعِ الثَّقِيلِ المَنَاكبُ

And a night of intimacy, from us desire woke

So it shook, yearning, the heavy shoulders

بِعُودٍ تَرَى وَقْعَ الأَنَامِلِ فَوْقَهُ

كَمَا اجْتَهَدْتَ فِي نَسْجِهِنْ العَنَاكِبُ

With a branch you see the fall of fingers above

As diligently you wove them, o spiders

حَشَدْنَا جُمُوعَ اللَّحْنِ مِنْهُ فَأَقْبَلَتْ

كَتَائِبَ تَقْفُوْ إِثْرَهُنَّ كَتَائِبُ

We amassed the multitudes of melody from it, so they came

Like regiments following their footsteps, regiments

وَدَارَتْ بِنَا الأَقْدَاحُ حَتَّى كَأَنَّنَا

بُدُورٌ وَكَاسَاتُ المُدَامِ كَوَاكِبُ

And the cups turned with us, until it was as if we

Were tanks and the cups of wine were planets

يُظَلِّلُنَا بِالْغَيْمِ نَدٌّ وَعَنْبَرٌ

وَتنْضَحُنَا بِالطِّيْبِ سُحْتٌ سَوَاكِبُ

Shading us with mist, a fire and amber

And sprinkling us with perfume, meteors shooting stars

إلَى مِثْلِ هَذَا الأُنْسِ يَرْكَبُ جَالِسٌ

جَنيباً لِلُقْيَاهُ وَيَجْلِسُ رَاكِبُ

To the likes of this intimacy mounts one sitting

Astride, to meet it, and sits, riding