1. طمِع الوَرد أن ينافس خَدِّي

    طمع الغصن أن يقاس بقَدِّي

    The rose aspired to rival my cheek.

    The branch aspired to be compared with my stature.

  2. أنا إنْسِيَّةٌ ولكنَّ حسني

    حُسْن حُورِيّةٍ بجنَّة خُلْد

    I am a human woman, and yet my beauty

    is a houri’s beauty in a garden of eternity.

  3. لو تأَمَّلْنَنِي العيونُ لأَجْرَي

    لحظُها رقَّة مع الماء جلْدِي

    Were eyes to gaze upon me, then would

    their glance make my skin, in its delicacy, flow with the water.

  4. صاغني الله واصطفانيَ لمَّا

    صاغني فَرْدة الجَمَال لِفَرْد

    God fashioned me and chose me when

    He fashioned me, peerless in beauty, for a peerless one.