رُبَّ فتاةٍ حُرَّةِ المُقَلّدِ

رُبَّ فتاةٍ حُرَّةِ المُقَلّدِ

تختال في زِيِّ غلام أمردِ

تختال في زِيِّ غلام أمردِ

Many a fair-necked maiden

Many a free girl walks with the gait of a sturdy lad,

Struts in the garb of a beardless youth,

Swaying in the dress of a frolicking youth,

حين بدا للحُلْم أو كأنْ قَدِ

حين بدا للحُلْم أو كأنْ قَدِ

إن لا تَمِسْ في مشيها تأوَّدِ

إن لا تَمِسْ في مشيها تأوَّدِ

Just approaching puberty—or seemingly already there—

As soon as she felt the first flush of passion,

If you do not detect a sway in her walk.

Or as though she never touched the ground in her walk.

غيداء من ماء الشباب الأغْيَدِ

غيداء من ماء الشباب الأغْيَدِ

كأنما ترنو بِعيْنَيْ فَرْقدِ

كأنما ترنو بِعيْنَيْ فَرْقدِ

Lissome, from the waters of supple youth,

She sways supple as a branch of youth's sapling,

As though she gazes with the eyes of a wild cow's calf.

As if she is glancing with the eyes of a fawn,

بيضاء لم تشْحبْ ولم تَخدَّدِ

بيضاء لم تشْحبْ ولم تَخدَّدِ

تضربُ متْنَيْها بوحْفٍ أسْودِ

تضربُ متْنَيْها بوحْفٍ أسْودِ

Fair-skinned, neither pallid nor gaunt,

White, unblemished by the yellowness of sickness,

Her thick black hair beats against both sides of her back,

Striking her neck with black tresses,

يَنْمى إلى دِعْص لها مُنَضَّدٍ

يَنْمى إلى دِعْص لها مُنَضَّدٍ

تكسو عقودَ الدُرِّ والزبرجدِ

تكسو عقودَ الدُرِّ والزبرجدِ

Reaching down to her heaped-up dune.

Clustered like bunches of ripened dates,

She clothes with necklaces of pearl and peridot

Adorned with necklaces of pearl and ruby,

نَحْراً كصرْحِ المرمرِ المُمَرَّدِ

نَحْراً كصرْحِ المرمرِ المُمَرَّدِ

دافعْتُها فما اتقتني باليدِ

دافعْتُها فما اتقتني باليدِ

A throat like a palace of smoothly polished marble.

With a throat like an edifice of polished marble

I tussled with her; she did not fend me off with her hand,

I confronted her, but she did not confront me with her hand,

لكنْ برجليها ولم تَنَكَّدِ

لكنْ برجليها ولم تَنَكَّدِ

فبتُّ منها مطمئنَّ المقْعَدِ

فبتُّ منها مطمئنَّ المقْعَدِ

But with her legs, and she showed no ill temper.

Rather with her legs, and she did not waver,

So I spent the night with her, securely seated,

So I remained still, resigned to my seat,

أشُكُّ حاذَيها بعرْدٍ أجْرَدِ

أشُكُّ حاذَيها بعرْدٍ أجْرَدِ

مُلَمْلَمٍ مثل الرَّشَاء المُحصَدِ

مُلَمْلَمٍ مثل الرَّشَاء المُحصَدِ

Piercing her haunches with a stiff, hairless penis,

Suspecting that next to her was a hairy monkey,

Compact and rounded, like a tightly twisted well-rope,

Disheveled like harvested heads of millet,

مُعَاوِدٍ أمثالَها معوَّدِ

مُعَاوِدٍ أمثالَها معوَّدِ

في بيت طائيٍّ كريم المحْتدِ

في بيت طائيٍّ كريم المحْتدِ

Returning often to women like her, well practised,

Persistently courting the likes of her, accustomed,

In the house of a Tayyite of noble lineage,

In a lofty ornate house, honorable assembly,

سمْحٍ بِعِرْسيْهِ حليم المشْهَدِ

سمْحٍ بِعِرْسيْهِ حليم المشْهَدِ

خالدُ يا ذا السؤددِ المؤطَّدِ

خالدُ يا ذا السؤددِ المؤطَّدِ

Generous with his two wives, forbearing in company.

Tolerant in his wedding, forbearing in his spectacle.

Khalid, O possessor of firmly established eminence,

Enduring Khaled, O source of glory abounding,

كم لك عندي من يد لم تُجْحَدِ

كم لك عندي من يد لم تُجْحَدِ

تُثْني عليك بالفعال الأمجدِ

تُثْني عليك بالفعال الأمجدِ

How many favors you have done me, none denied,

How much do you have with me of hands that did not fail you,

Praising you for your most glorious deeds.

Who praise you for your most glorious deeds.