قالوا بحاجب من صابيتها أثرٌ

قالوا بحاجب من صابيتها أثرٌ

فقلت مهلاً فلي من ذاك صدق خبر

فقلت مهلاً فلي من ذاك صدق خبر

They said: There is a mark on the eyebrow of the woman I wooed.

They said a trace remains from her eyebrow's arch

So I said: Wait, for I have a true account of that.

But I said, wait, for that news I cannot vouch

لفرط ما رشقت من قوس حاجبها

لفرط ما رشقت من قوس حاجبها

نبلاً فاثر وضع النبل فيه أثر

نبلاً فاثر وضع النبل فيه أثر

So many did she shoot from the bow of her eyebrow—

For when her eyebrow's bow shot arrows at me

arrows—that placing the arrows in it left a mark.

The arrows left their trace upon my heart's couch