1. مُعتَدِلٌ كَالغُصنِ الناضِرِ

    أَبلَجُ مِثلُ القَمَرِ الزاهِرِ

    Well-proportioned as a verdant branch,

    Bright-faced like the radiant moon.

  2. جُفونُهُ تَرشِقُ أَهلَ الهَوى

    بِأَسهُمٍ مِن طَرفِهِ الفاتِرِ

    His eyelids assail those in love

    With arrows from his languid gaze.

  3. قَد قُلتُ لَمّا لَجَّ في صَدِّهِ

    إِعطُف عَلى عَبدِكَ يا قابِري

    I said, when he persisted in his rejection:

    Have pity on your slave, O you who bury me!

  4. إِن لَم تَجُد لي صِحتُ بَينَ الوَرى

    وَيلاهُ مِن ظَبيِ بَني عامِرِ

    If you are not generous to me, I shall cry out among humankind:

    Woe is me because of the gazelle of Banū ʿĀmir!