1. رأت غلاماً علا شرب الطلاء به

    يعيا بإرقاص بردي الخلاخيلِ

    She saw a youth whom drinking boiled wine had lifted high,

    Unable to set the ankleted, reedlike legs dancing,

  2. مبطناً بدخيسِ اللحم تحسبه

    مما يصوَّر في تلك التماثيل

    Padded with dense flesh—you would take him

    For one of the figures portrayed in those statues.

  3. أكفى من الكف في عقد النكاح وما

    يعيا به حل هميان السراويل

    More adept than the hand at tying the marriage-knot; nor

    Does untying the trouser-girdle baffle him.

  4. تركتها والأيامى غير واحدة

    فاحبسه عن بيتها يا حابس الفيل

    I left her—and there is more than one unmarried woman.

    So keep him from her house, O restrainer of the elephant!