وَظالِمَةِ الأَردافِ مَظلومَةِ الخَصرِ

وَظالِمَةِ الأَردافِ مَظلومَةِ الخَصرِ

عَقيقَةِ الخَدَّينِ فِضَيَّةِ الثَغرِ

عَقيقَةِ الخَدَّينِ فِضَيَّةِ الثَغرِ

And a woman with tyrannous hips and an oppressed waist,

Of ample hips, slender waist

With carnelian cheeks and a silvery mouth,

Ruby cheeks, lips of silver taste

سَقَتني عَروساً قَد كَسَتها زُجاجَةً

سَقَتني عَروساً قَد كَسَتها زُجاجَةً

وَخاطَت لَها بِالماءِ طَوقاً مِنَ الدُرِّ

وَخاطَت لَها بِالماءِ طَوقاً مِنَ الدُرِّ

Gave me a bride to drink, whom she had clothed in a bottle,

She greeted me, a bride newly dressed

And sewed her, with water, a necklace of pearls,

Adorned with beads of dew, the fairest

لَدى رَوضَةٍ تاهَت بِسَروٍ كَأَنَّهُ

لَدى رَوضَةٍ تاهَت بِسَروٍ كَأَنَّهُ

وَصائِفُ صافَت في غَلائِلِها الخَضرِ

وَصائِفُ صافَت في غَلائِلِها الخَضرِ

Beside a garden proud of its cypresses, as though they were

In a garden lost, by a cypress blessed

Handmaidens summering in their thin green robes.

Swaying, its green locks caressed

فَوَفَّيتُها بِالشُربِ ما تَستَحِقُّهُ

فَوَفَّيتُها بِالشُربِ ما تَستَحِقُّهُ

إِلى أَن تَوَفّاني بِها مَلَكُ السَكرِ

إِلى أَن تَوَفّاني بِها مَلَكُ السَكرِ

So, by drinking, I rendered her all her due,

I regaled her with drinks, as was meet

Until, through her, the angel of drunkenness claimed my soul.

Till in sweet drunkenness, we were both complete