ما اِكتَحَلَت مُقلَةٌ بِرُؤيَتِحا

ما اِكتَحَلَت مُقلَةٌ بِرُؤيَتِحا

فَمَسَّها الدَهرَ بَعدَها رَمَدُ

فَمَسَّها الدَهرَ بَعدَها رَمَدُ

No eye that has taken the sight of her as kohl

No eyelid had been darkened with kohl ere

has ever afterward been touched by inflammation.

Time thereafter afflicted it with rheum.

نِعمَ شِعارُ الفَتى إِذا بَرَدَ ال

نِعمَ شِعارُ الفَتى إِذا بَرَدَ ال

لَيلُ سُحَيراً وَقَفقَفَ الصَرِدُ

لَيلُ سُحَيراً وَقَفقَفَ الصَرِدُ

How fine she is as a young man's inner garment, when cold is the

How excellent a youth’s motto when the night

night just before dawn, and the chilled man shivers.

Turns leaden and the twistings twist and turn!