1. شوقي لردف مُهفهف

    يزدادُ مُذ أحببتهُ

    My longing for a slender-waisted one's rump

    grows since I fell in love with him.

  2. فركبت في حُبّي له

    بحر الغرام وخُضتهُ

    So, in my love for him, I rode

    the sea of passion and plunged into it.

  3. لكن أمنتُ مخافتي

    وسلمتُ حين ركبتهُ

    Yet I was safe from what I feared,

    and came through unharmed when I rode it.