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| Agitated with delight like a waving sea. | 1 |
| Bald, as ’twere a scalp, reft of its hairs. | 2 |
| His face beamed like a pearl with light. | 3 |
| Beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan. | 4 |
| Bind like an adamant-chain. | 5 |
| Bright as fullest moon in blackest air. | 6 |
| Bright as though a moon of the fourteenth night. | 7 |
| Cheek as the blood of the dragon bright. | 8 |
| The down on his cheeks dispread like myrtles springing from the heart of a bright red rose. | 9 |
| Cheeks like blood-red anemones. | 10 |
| Clean as virgin silver. | 11 |
| Clear as pearls and diaphanous gems. | 12 |
| The difference of savour ’twixt vinegar and wine. | 13 |
| Thy face, like dawn when it lights the dawn. | 14 |
| Faded like the morn. | 15 |
| Fly as a bird on the wings of Night. | 16 |
| Glad as a fly. | 17 |
| The glance of the eyes like the fawn’s soft gaze. | 18 |
| Javelins glanced like leven-light on white mail-shirt. | 19 |
| Gleaming like the chamomile. | 20 |
| Gold in the house is like sun in the world. | 21 |
| Joyful as a fly. | 22 |
| Keen, like the horn of the cuspèd moon. | 23 |
| Lips like coralline. | 24 |
| Dainty lips like double carnelian. | 25 |
| Moaned like a drinker in grievous plight. | 26 |
| A mouth as it were Solomon’s seal. | 27 |
| Women’s good name, O my lady, is like curded milk, the least dust fouleth it; and like glass, which, if it be cracked, may not be mended. | 28 |
| Her neck is like the neck of doe. | 29 |
| A neck like an ingot of silver. | 30 |
| Flabby nose like a brinjall, or eggplant. | 31 |
| Radiant … like a young moon. | 32 |
| Runs … as the surge of health returning to the sick. | 33 |
| Shimmered like silver. | 34 |
| Soft as silk in her touch. | 35 |
| Soft as threaded pearls. | 36 |
| Softer than zephyr’s wing. | 37 |
| Straight as a cane. | 38 |
| Like a branch she sways with supple ply. | 39 |
| Sweet as maidens deckt and dight. | 40 |
| Teeth like string pearls in carceneto of gold. | 41 |
| Teeth like the tusks of jinni who frightened poultry in henhouses. | 42 |
| Thin as a pair of shears. | 43 |
| A voice like the whistle of birds. | 44 |
| White as camphor. | 45 |
| Brow white as day. | 46 |
| White as morning. | 47 |
| White as the full moon when it mooneth on its fourteenth night. | 48 |
| White like egg of the pigeon hen. | 49 |
| Wild as wild Arabs. | 50 |
| Worn down … like a shape in a shroud. | 51 |
| Yellow as a hopeless lover. | 52 |
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