1. لِحَاظُهُ قَد أرسَلاَ

    وَالقَدّ سَهمٌ أَعدَلا

    His glances have let fly,

    and his figure is a straighter arrow.

  2. يَا عُصبَةَ العُشَّاقِ لا

    تُلقُوا بِأَيدِيكُم إِلَى

    O band of lovers, do not

    cast yourselves, with your own hands, toward

  3. هَذَا الغَزَالِ الأَحوَرِ

    بِلَحظِهِ كَم يَسحُرِ

    this dark-eyed gazelle.

    With his glance, how he bewitches!

  4. وَعَن وِصَالِي يَنفُرِ

    لأَنَّهُ رِيمُ الفَلاَ

    And from union with me he shies away,

    for he is a white gazelle of the wilderness.

  5. بَدرٌ حَلاَ مَنطِقُهُ

    وَفِي الحَشَا مَشرِقُهُ

    A full moon whose speech is sweet,

    and his rising-place is within the breast.

  6. نَعم نَعم نَعشَقُهُ

    جَهراً عَلَى رأسِ المَلاَ

    Yes, yes, we love him,

    openly, before the assembled throng.

  7. يَمُرّ بِي مُبتَسِمَا

    وَكُلَّمَا مَرّ حَلاَ

    He passes by me, smiling,

    and whenever he passes, he is lovely.

  8. يَا مَن لَقَلبِي قَد كَوَى

    وَلَم يَجُد لِي بِالدّوَا

    O you who have seared my heart,

    and have not granted me the remedy:

  9. إن حَلّ فِي شَرعَ الهَوَى

    قَتلِي فَلاَ حَولَ وَلاَ

    if, under love's law, it is permitted

    to kill me, then there is no power, nor...