1. يا رشأً مسكنهُ فاس

    أَلشمسُ مهما لُحتَ نبراسُ

    O fawn whose dwelling is Fez,

    the sun, whenever you appear, is but a lamp.

  2. صدغاكَ في خدَّيكَ ما لاح أَمْ

    أُنبِتَ فيه الوردُ والآس

    Are those your sidelocks appearing on your cheeks, or

    have roses and myrtle been planted there?

  3. وعطفكَ اللَّدْنُ انثنى نشوةً

    أم غُصُنٌ للأيكِ مَيّاس

    And has your supple waist bent in intoxication,

    or is it a swaying bough of the grove?

  4. حسبيَ أجفانُك خمراً وخدَّ

    اك ومن ريَّاكَ أنفاس

    Your eyelids suffice me as wine, and your cheeks,

    and breaths of your fragrance.

  5. لا تسقني الخمرَ إذاً بعدها

    قد فعلتْ ما تفعلُ الكاس

    Then give me no wine to drink after them;

    they have already done what the cup does.

  6. ومهفهفٍ أحوى اللَّمى ذي مقلةٍ

    تُردي ظُباها بالكميِّ الفارسِ

    And a slender, dark-lipped youth, with an eye

    whose blades lay the armored horseman low—

  7. فَعلتْ شمائلُهُ العذابُ بمهجتي

    فعلَ النسائمِ بالقضيبِ المائس

    his sweet qualities did to my heart

    what breezes do to a swaying bough.

  8. كالغُصنِ هُزَّ على كثيبٍ أَهْيَلٍ

    كالصبحِ أُطْلِعَ تحت ليلٍ دامس

    Like a bough shaken upon a dune of loose sand,

    like dawn brought forth beneath a pitch-dark night.

  9. أأبا الوليدِ لقد أَدَرْتَ لواحظا

    رَسَخَتْ سهامُ قسيِّها في البائس

    O Abu al-Walid, you have indeed cast glances

    whose bows' arrows have lodged deep in the wretched one.