بدر توارى فيّ من رقبائه

حذر العيون عليه من رقبائه

A full moon hid within me from his watchers,

wary of the eyes his watchers fixed upon him.

فاق البدور النيرات بحسنه

والشمس تشرق من سنا لألائه

In beauty he surpassed the radiant full moons,

and the sun shines from the splendor of his graces.

بالبيض والسمر الرشاق محجب

من لي به والموت دون خبائه

Veiled behind white blades and slender brown spears—

who will gain him for me, with death before his pavilion?

مترنح الاعطاف ميله الصبا

يثني على رياه طيب ثنائه

Supple-limbed and swaying, he is bent by the east wind;

the fragrant breezes of his praise extol him.

فالروض منه قد تضوع نشره

لما عليه جر فضل ردائه

The meadow’s fragrance has breathed forth because of him,

when he dragged across it the trailing fold of his robe.

فكأن عرف المسك خالط تربه

او در كافور على حصبائه

As though musk’s perfume had mingled with its soil,

or pearls of camphor lay upon its pebbles.

ريان ماء الحسن شف بحمرة

في خده والماء لون انائه

Brimming with beauty’s water, a blush shines through

in his cheek—and water takes the color of its vessel.