1. A prolonged tale of tears that flows
Warns you that the talk of patience has run its course

2. And that all the words of reproach are nonsense
And all that the slanderers convey is distortion

3. If only all the slanderers were on a thread, their
Hands paralyzed and their glances blinded

4. Alas for your cheek, a branch full of fruit
If only it was plucked by the lips’ kiss

5. And your shining cheek is a gold coin whose gleam
Would be diverted by the eyes’ glance

6. I sacrifice her who complains I love her, while
She has heaviness and lightness in her buttocks and waist

7. She blames the armpits and branches while playing
Yet the armpits are plucked and the branches pruned

8. My poems contain youthfulness about her while she
Alleviates the wound of passion with a glance

9. They said the crescent moon told of her rising
We said you speak true but there is some ambiguity

10. As the Nile of Egypt told of the generosity of its flood
Unless the Nile’s faithfulness was prone to delay

11. I composed lamentations for him in a style
Commended for merit, appended to merit

12. The king’s counselor presents his pens
For generosity and valor, alternating and warning

13. The evident good fortune, if his virtues were diffused
In the horizon, no eclipsed moon would appear

14. Serene of face, he gives wherever a bright face turns
As if veiled by the dust of the place

15. O you who rebukes him for doing a kindness!
Never! The lovers are not deterred by censure

16. In his hand is a pen whose praises stem
From grace, eminence, discernment and repute

17. The conquests of a king, prose distinguishes him
This and that, and the prose of people is cessation

18. The superiority of a verse gives him honor
He is the pleased one, while the rest of verse is truncated

19. A foxy woman captivates the viewer with her skill
While the face of her envier is blinded by terror

20. The companion of secrets has brought joy to the times through him
The breast of the confidante and the gifts are doubled

21. How many came openly and how many in secret
And for all, favors and honor

22. How gently the letters in his epistles
Are folded for the temper of addresses, softened

23. The souls of enemies flow in battle through him
As if the battle were sown with panic

24. Both land and sea are safe through security
One is humbled by generosity and the other turbulent

25. Each ally is connected by the stroke of the pen
And each enemy severed by the stroke of the sword

26. Thanks for kindness and indifference you possess
For your servant - righteousness and education

27. Some turned from me and waged war
Complaining of arms, then assault and defiance

28. I never complained, nor complained to mortals
Of my kind, with fate decreeing

29. Until favors made you refrain
From those deliriums, and they denounced after raging

30. If my stance displeased a people I praised
Their displeasure was honor and elevation for me

31. How many robes I described to the threadbare
As I attended while he bit his wooly beard in rage

32. And goodness that wealth was immersed in
While I had goodness immersed in poverty

33. The yield wandered; I said to my children
Seek it out, O barefoot ones of the house, or roam

34. A brown wheaten woman whose smile is tempting
Yet all of her is plucked by the lips

35. The hand of sustenance knocked at my door, unyielding
So I said, "May the sister of sustenance be sexually abused," in provocation

36. And she taught me the intricacies of poetry
With no line immersed in poverty

37. This is the bread - O battalions of my faith
And war at night is set out in the bowls

38. Bread, bounty and restoration after I spoke
Rhyming, wordplay and orthographic alterations for praises

39. Let praise speak after fatigue, this
Comes without difficulty of expression

40. I still praise the poetry of a youth among praisers
With merit, none can deter him from what is known

41. His polished eulogies shine, and shine
Above praise containing butcher's exaggeration

42. I purified my thoughts of love for the one with a pen
For cleansing is the condition for a vessel of love