1. His stance began to sway unsteadily
What sun on a lance can rival him?

2. I stood remembering him, turning to the gazelle,
Its glance said to me without any simile,

3. Sing absently yearning and it hits him
With a glance, so he aims at both states,

4. What is it with him whom my heart fell for his charms
Now torturing my soul while it ransoms him

5. What is it with my heart’s reproacher in his love
Exhausted entering into what does not concern him

6. His words are wind but in affection there is flame
And the bitter wind perhaps ignites it

7. My heart thanked Allah for the beloved thereby
So why blame my state with its abandoner?

8. My heart’s home fears no intruding blamer’s invasion
For the home has a Lord who will protect it

9. O kindest sympathy of wandering and anger
As though I said the branch a second it

10. Lower your wrap and favor me with a promise of union
And let my life spend seeking it

11. Send an apparition I see myself arguing with
The soul proves it and body denies it

12. Alas—my pillow is long in your love so
No specter I see nor illness I pretend

13. I pass the nights sleepless so O youth
The night kills him of sorrow while he gives it life

14. If the night had power as they claimed
It would do justice to my eyelids from its torment

15. Quenching longing for you and days of grace
Sends back the tear of meaning from its litigant

16. Unite—envelop my soul after it tired
Perfect—envelop religion of Allah giving it life

17. Guarding precinct of kingdom with pens unfurled
To hopes and aspirations around its valley

18. If I cast like Moses’ staff on a rock
Water burst from its furthest sources

19. His glories came giving good tidings
So his hand ratified the good tidings of his glories

20. A hand whose origin brought out every dew’s branch
Like the sea conveying its channels

21. Traveling behind its hidden clouds calling
Taking no water but from its courses

22. O good opinion's patron this composition
With singular grace called out its caller

23. He threaded his odes with intention referring
That wealth derived from us its richness

24. He who draws grace’s Nile his boons
So fingers but from his hands

25. Kinanah’s arrow held an edge of his skill
Yemen knows no other when containing it

26. With a palm purely marked if he drew a pen
It nearly speaks praising its Maker

27. Of easy disposition no mantle contends him
Nor a star rivals him

28. My youthful determination passed—how many states dependent
A state’s dependence on an act with its past

29. In a house of grace raised above Gemini
Odes announce below its foundations

30. We did not know what description to limit it with
And the house’s owner knows best what’s in it

31. A house of Yahya connected to the Farouq's
Bygone radiance from a house and its remainder

32. Say to him whose ambition rose to glory
Rivaling highest heaven while Yahya cannot rival him

33. That mastery has unfurled its dynasties
To the singular one of time it pours itself and pours him

34. Divider of religion and world with moral
Exhausting the glories whoever contends him

35. His days upholding glory and might
His nights upholding chastity and piety

36. He never ceased devising opinions and litanies
Until the kingdom settled in its highest seat

37. And justice held firmly in the world, so none remains
But a delightful one in the garden enjoying it

38. O you whose outstanding grace is evident and hidden
And you whose intention is near and far

39. The debt of hope exhausted its demands from fate
But you are its arbitrator

40. I call upon you the call of one aggrieved in state
Believing none save Allah then you adjures it

41. If you don’t respect its purpose with a view from you
My wishful relief and solace

42. A word from you interpreting me and appeasing me
I say and tears have marched their riding beasts

43. To your sanctuary and wishes toured it
This vocabulary growth complains of thirst

44. Hoping your horizon with springs waters it
Yes—and this shaky dictation so may

45. The owner of scripture's pen revive it