قصيرةٌ طالَ غرامي بها

كأنَّها الريمةُ مِنْ رامَهْ

Short she is—yet long has my passion for her endured;

to whoever desires her, she seems a gazelle.

إنْ قيلَ عنها مالها قامةٌ

فالشمسُ والبدرُ بلا قامَهْ

If someone says of her, “She has no height,”

the sun and the full moon have no height either.