1. انظُرْ الى الشمس فوقَ النيلِ غاربةٌ

    واعجَبْ لما بعدَها من حُمرةِ الشفَقِ

    Look at the sun setting over the Nile,

    and marvel at the redness of the twilight after her.

  2. غابتْ وأبقَتْ شُعاعاً فيه يفخلِفُها

    كأنّها احترقَتْ بالماءِ في الغرقِ

    She has set, leaving a ray in it to take her place,

    as though she had been burned by the water as she drowned.

  3. وللهلالِ فهل وافى ليُنقِذَها

    في أثْرها زورقٌ قد صِيغَ من ورَقِ

    And marvel at the crescent—has it come to rescue her,

    a skiff in her wake, fashioned from silver?