Classic Poem

Come tonight, O beloved. Come and hurry.
I shall meet you at the corner of the road
When you and the other young girls return from the well.

" Come tonight, O strong man. Come and hurry.
I am your little nightingale.
When the young girls heard you calling me,
They left me alone at the corner of the road.
Come tonight. Come and hurry.
I shall give you the flower of my red mouth and the forest of my black locks."

Come tonight.
Come and hurry, O my beloved.


" I have loosened my black locks. I am naked.
Look at me, O strong man.
Take my hand, without fear.
For my father has left the house.
Come and sit by my side on the red bed.
I am waiting."

Come tonight.
Come and hurry, O my beloved.

" Sit by my side on the red bed.
I give you my lips that are scarlet with the scarlet of my heart.
Your hairy hands are crushing my white breasts, O strong man.
My beauty is a garden.
You are the hawk in the beauty of my garden."

Come tonight.
Come and hurry, O my beloved.


" My beauty is a garden."
Dark are the flowers in the secret paths of my garden."

I cannot reach the secret flowers in the beauty of your garden.
They are surrounded by the thick jungle of your black hair.
Three or four little beauty spots are on your small chin.
Nur Shah Ali desires your soft and delicate lips.

Come tonight.
Come and hurry, O my beloved.