اعْلَى الْجَمَال تَغَار مِنَّا

مَاذَا عَلَيْك اذَا نَظَرْنَا

The epitome of beauty, you make us envious

What is it to you if we glance?

هِي نَظْرَة تَنْسَي الُّوَقَار

وَتَسْعَد الْرُّوْح الْمَعْنَى

It is but a look that forgets dignity

And gladdens the soul and its meaning

دِنْيَاي انتِ وَفَرْحَتِي

وَمُنَى الْفُؤَاد اذَا تَمَنَّى

My world you are, and my joy

And the heart's wish when it desires

أَنْتِ الْسَّمَاء بَدَت لَنَا

وَاسَتَعَصَّمّت فِي الْبُعْد عَنَّا

You are the sky that appeared to us

And remained aloof in the distance from us

هَلَا رَحِمْت مُتَيَّمَا

عَصَفَت بِه الاشوق وَهْنَا

Why not take pity on a lover

Whose passion and yearning tempest-tossed him

وَهَفَت بِه الذِكْرَى

فَطَاف مَع الْدُّجَى مَغْنَى فَمَغْنّى

And memory's winds blew him

So he wandered, singing, a melody, a melody

هَزَّتْه مِنْك مَحَاسِن

غِنَى بِهَا لِمَا تَغَنَّى

Your charms made him drunk

They suffice what his singing ecstasied

يَاشعلُه طَافَت خَوَاطِرَنَا

حَوَالَيْهَا وَطُفْنَا

O flame, you set our thoughts roaming

Revolving around you as we roamed

انْسِت فِيْك قَدْاسَه

وَلَمَسَت اشَرّاقَا وَفَنَّا

We forgot in you a prayer

And touched an effulgence and passed away

وَنَظَرْت فِي عَيْنَيْك

افَاقَا وَاسْرَارّا وَمَعْنَى

And looked into your eyes

Horizons and mysteries and meaning

وَسَمِعْت سِحْرِيَّا

يَذُوْب صَدَاه فِي الْاسْمَاع لَحْنَا

And heard a sorcery

Melting its echo in the ears a melody

نِلْت الْسَّعَادَه فِي

الْهَوَى ورشَفَتِهَا دَنَا فَدَنَا

I attained happiness in

Passion and sipped it slowly, slowly

قُيِّدَت حُسْنُك فِي

الْخُدُوْد وَصُنْتُه لِمَا تَجَنَّى

Your beauty was confined in

Cheeks and I protected it from what it hid

وَحَجَبْتَه فَحَجَبْت

سِحْرَا نَاطِقَا وَحُجِبَت كَوْنَا

And you veiled it, so you veiled

A speaking sorcery and a universe was veiled

وَابَيْت الَا ان تُشَيَّد

لِلْجَمَال الْحُر سِجْنَا

And refused that the beautiful and free

Should be imprisoned