بعضُهم لا يُحِبُّ إِلاَّ مُصنَّنْ

بعضُهم لا يُحِبُّ إِلاَّ مُصنَّنْ

فإِذا كان أَسمرَاً يتجنَّنْ

فإِذا كان أَسمرَاً يتجنَّنْ

Some of them love only a stinking fellow.

Some love only what's refined and pure

And if he is brown-skinned, his admirer goes mad.

If he's dark-skinned, they'll go insane

قلت تهواه أَسْمراً قال إِي وال

قلت تهواه أَسْمراً قال إِي وال

لهِ أَهْواهُ أَسمراً لا مُعَنَّن

لهِ أَهْواهُ أَسمراً لا مُعَنَّن

I said, “You love him brown-skinned?” He said, “Yes, by—

I said "Do you love a dark one?" He said "Indeed I do

God! I love him brown-skinned, not beard-bridled.”

For him I long, though not refined"