1. What ails your eyes that refuse to sleep
After the eyes have reclined in slumber?

2. You watch the stars as if they were scattered
Until you saw the dawn's pillar

3. And the night drives away the day, yet I do not see
The day drive away the night pursued

4. And you see it like the night whose courtyard
Is entered by the destroyer, its fence broken down

5. So I yearned after the passing of six months
And longing can make the heart bleary-eyed

6. So I was startled by the gazelles that were in Lujayn
And they increased, spreading freely

7. Until they endured when an intrepid rider advanced
Heading west, his sail upright

8. And his panting when he stood up with the load
Nearly cuts through his upright sail

9. My friend, stop, let us greet a house
Whose vestiges of dwelling are nearly gone

10. The gravel of its threshold is altered so
That it confuses the discerner and the pursued

11. And a night after that went by
For nights do not leave anything fresh

12. And I knew her speech to be clear
And she gently implies with her guide

13. And when she walked on the carpet, you would think
She rose, wishing to climb up the dune

14. And you see her burdensome litters and belongings
Piled up, with the rest of her smooth-skinned crew

15. She wets the toothstick in her palm
Cooling it to cleanse the gums

16. She resembled the doe of a gazelle's mother
And a gazelle when it is loving and gentle

17. And the slender two eyebrows when it walks
Swaying softly on the plaited tresses

18. Like a lone pearl in its oyster
Restless, and order followed it

19. Jurayr, you have mounted dangerous beasts
Seeking glory, but found glory

20. And you roamed to boast about the generous but insulted them
Until you gained from the torment fuel

21. And you found their war to be as you portrayed it
A fire flaming dry timber and iron

22. O son of the she-donkey, you began the first time
And you were defeated when poem rebutted poem

23. And I broke your lute and peeled off its sapwood
Until I left you downcast and subdued

24. O son of Muraghah, you are more irreproachable than one who walked
The Hasaba, and more rational than one made of wood

25. And if you claim ancestry, you will find your disgrace present
While glory is far from you if you are attributed

26. Every discourse perishes except for your disgrace
O son of Muraghah, it remains ever fresh

27. You brought in the Rabee'a and did not take them out
O son of the she-donkey, so they shackled you

28. And you butted the Rabee'a so they would attain our goal
O son of the she-donkey, so they made your hides cracked

29. And the hides of Rabee'a you see dyed
With disgrace - the bones did not acquire hides

30. The vile and base are a folk
Who left your tongue bound between them

31. With the captivity of your women and killing of your men
Ask the settlements of Irāb and ancestors

32. The women were taken captive against Irāb while you
Were in Irāb when the women were taken captive

33. And you sheathed your sword empty and left it
Disgraced at their abodes, subdued

34. O son of Muraghah, you did not find a source of pride
Until you boasted of being a prey and outcast

35. O son of the she-donkey, your father is more blameworthy than a father could be
And the stallion exposes the disgrace of his newborn

36. O son of Muraghah, carrying your women
Is water that distinguishes slave from free

37. The wombs of the Rabee'ite women are filled with it
Coupling with the most feral studs

38. Ghathawiyyah, suckling girls whose mothers
Had not coupled with the noble previously

39. She bore the slave of the brow, came from her womb
And inherited the blame and baseness of forefathers

40. His disgrace tore her belly open
And disgrace sufficed him as inheritance while young

41. So when he flourished in his prime arrogantly
His disgrace flourished even more

42. Until old age branched him, living long
Like a dog, neither fortunate nor envied

43. O son of the she-donkey, you lied - my horsemen
Protect the tents and kill the warriors

44. Wearing armor, when the regiment approaches
In close rows, its leader upright

45. And a regiment whose descent makes the land dark
Reaping and bringing the spears fruit

46. We struck the Shuhub's Udayyah and made their chief collapse
Without wanting to bow down

47. And the battlefield of Maʿrakah whose glory we won
Angered the chief, intense and black

48. And the army, the day Liwā folded them, I crushed them
Like the ripper crushes the harvest

49. No mouth more impenetrable than one with bared teeth
And our horsemen fell upon it to defend

50. O son of Muraghah, the severity of our horses
Left Ghudānah and Kulaib utterly defeated

51. The days of Sajhah, O Jurayr, lead you
Blameworthy as led and leader

52. And their plains in Dhi Maja'ah left
No one from Hadramawt or Himas neglected

53. The day of Khuzaym after we bound him when
They had made pacts with us

54. And we drove back ‘Ādiyah of Hudhayl but no army
After it intended to return

55. O son of Muraghah, you have mocked gatherings
And horsemen - O son of Muraghah - hunted

56. They surpassed Kulaib in generosity and elevation
Sitting above cushions loftily

57. Do you expect one whose building reached the sky
You have cast at him severely