السِّحْرُ مِنْ أَلْفَاظِهَا الفَاتِكَهْ

وَالرُّوحُ مِنْ إِعْرَاضِهَا هَالِكَهْ

Her magic is in her deadly words,

And her spirit in her annihilating indifference.

والْقَهْوَةُ الصَّهْبَاءُ مِنْ رِيْقِهَا

وَالْمِسْكُ مِنْ أَصْدَاغِهَا الحَالِكَهْ

The blonde coffee in its saliva,

And the musk in its intoxicating breaths.

مَمْلُوكَةٌ تَمْلِكُ يَا مَنْ رَآَى

أَحْسَنَ مِنْ مَمْلُوكَةٍ مَالِكَهْ

She's owned yet she owns, O you who saw

One more beautiful than an owning mistress.

مَنْ لَمْ يَرَ الدُّرَّ وَتَأْلِيْفَهُ

فِي سِلْكِهِ فَلْيَرَهَا ضَاحِكَهْ

Whoever hasn't seen the pearl and its strand

Let him see it laughing.

تَسْلُكُ مِنْ أَجْسَامِ أَهْلِ الوَرَى

بِحَيْثُ أَرْوَاحُهُمْ سَالِكَهْ

It moves through the bodies of the people of the earth

Where their spirits are wandering.

قَدْ كَتَبَ الحُسْنُ عَلَى خَدِّهَا

كُلُّ دَمٍ أَنْتِ لَهُ سَافِكَهْ

Beauty has written on her cheek

For every blood shed you are its spiller.