1. She promised stolen moments to meet
And to present a rose in secrecy

2. She prolonged the lover's waiting until
She found a moment safe from enemies

3. Then she was jealous that the shadow would accompany him
So she visited on a dark night

4. Then she feared when she saw the stars of night
Like the eyes of spies

5. So she deputized an apparition to gather him up
One whose eyes verge on slumber

6. That’s how she leans when she turns away from us
Hardship itself makes the stingy gracious

7. Fulfillment with despair destroys
What hope built up in the beginning

8. The little kindness from her I see as much
If I had expected it from the beauty

9. So when will anguish be healed, my friend, by one
Who complained of thirst to the thirsty?

10. That’s my grandfather, branded with betrayal in love
Whenever I accused him of loyalty

11. Whenever she I love leaned away
Time exposed me to abandonment

12. And my name and pact are to the ear of heaven
Like earrings in the sky

13. Before it grew accustomed, from chaste dawns
A different white dawn each day

14. When I rise, neither for the beloved
Nor for youth is my concealment

15. I won’t forget the day of departure though
The leader of the caravan hurried away the excellent camels

16. Sulaima granted a cool greeting
When parting beckoned farewell

17. She traveled in order to provide the youth
A glance when she announced our separation

18. And she saw that she was, in passion, like me
And that she, for parting, had my weeping

19. So she wept and her tears were like beads
Falling on a red shawl

20. And every tear told me a canal
Poured from a piercing, frank wound

21. So you see two teardrops in the redness
Of her cheeks, black yet not equal

22. Her cheek dyes the tears and my tears
Dye the cheek, dripping blood

23. The blood dyed her cheek red
Like glass dyed with yellow orpiment

24. My intimate, far from the vile and the low life
Forbidden, unless with the virtuous

25. Don’t ask me where my sickness comes from
And show me where I want healing

26. Who excuses me, what excuse from days
No matter how twisting in perversion?

27. From an age that was harsh and whose children
Were like it in harshness

28. And generosity like the new moon
Days of concealment, so it has no ebb and flow

29. My resolve upon the hopes of wishes
And my awaiting them morning and evening

30. My clinging to a will, then I don’t know
If good before me or behind

31. My wakeful nights, throughout the dark
And my seeking great men’s praises

32. Yet they spurn me, and I refuse
But to perfect my manners and modesty

33. A disgust I hide, my imbalance from the onlooker
Like the disguise of the ostentatious

34. So look again with your eye, you’ll be amazed
If you know the extent of my trial

35. What is my state between an age and poetry
That ruins me and this rebuilds me

36. In a time that left no gain for poetry
Of wealth or song remaining

37. Beyond the envy of a envier whenever
My poetry was excellent despite scarcity of means

38. You see today the army camp, my friend
Crowded with people in the wide expanse

39. That I am among a stray group, vagabonds
And sons of a haughty state

40. Settling among them though I am far from them
In intention of drawing near and stooping

41. Like what is in the Qur’an of the Sura of Man
Seen after the Sura of the Poets

42. No heeding or asking after my state
No glance of pity

43. Dejected in a nature of a well-worn cloak
Laid down, its lining and trim torn

44. And it is dusty whoever saw me and my companions
Under it our condition was dusty

45. I make it seem never like this
The palm of a man upon the dusty ground

46. A youth among them whose darkness
Is not blamed, the hero of dawn and evening

47. Time left it so if the color had faded
Like foliage swaying in the desert

48. It appears to onlookers like an apparition
Among the air like the air itself

49. Whenever the light from the east touched it
I feared its blending into the dust

50. This is my state, and in the like of this
My condition if I stayed with my peers

51. And for how many flaws, hands short
Of merit - far from the generous company!

52. A brow beneath the sun’s brow shades him
The shadow of a ruin behind

53. Fit to say about him and her
And the nights accustomed to encroaching

54. What they related of the elite and the unassailable
Mansion, safe from the grumbling wasteland

55. Every people exposed by a people
Adorned with new garb of delight and splendor

56. Like the weaving of gardens that the fingers of breeze
Adorned at morning with patterns

57. Except we were content from all the people's robes
And what they deemed of hooded cloak and mantle

58. With a worn garment of slight patch
Or a white rag full of holes

59. Sweetness of waist, expanse of train, cool in summer
In its embrace, and hot in winter

60. Its bosom is in its ribs, and the penis
In the train, when it's donned in the morning

61. Then after she was arrayed, the lad would wear it
And he is most elegant of things

62. Worn for abiding, doffed for departure
When the wanderer’s call is heard

63. If they stood, atop the heads, and if
They traveled, it was ample for the open country

64. Her hands tailored it like a structure
Of consistent, well-proportioned parts

65. With metrics and genres, no blemish
Pursuing of coherence

66. She is shaggy, in the prime
Of youth, not in the time of prime

67. My heart leans to her, and the hump
Of the hunchback may also lean

68. But she won’t stand unless she holds
To disheveled, tangled locks

69. Twisted to me over the mountains, allowed
After a time long in deception

70. She left me suffering for sufferings
And returned enemies my friends

71. She corrupted my life, though it had been
Like the sun's eye, pure water beneath

72. After my time in ease, while it was green
Bending like a singing branch

73. And my affairs like intimates
Whose clauses fate wrote in equilibrium

74. The patron of religion, precedent
Of lofty steeds in battle, if they competed

75. A noble in his time, son of a noble
And attainment of goals is for the elite

76. Firm in opinion, shaming white swords and brown
With the sharpness of the polished blade

77. A rising in an expanse of glorious origin
Of glory, difficult to climb

78. Strewing in pleasantry what remains
Pearls envied by stars of heaven

79. So it bent its neck for a piece
From the horizon to it like stars of Gemini

80. If Banu Muqla saw him, he would be
Their precious one for whom they sacrifice

81. With their two idols they may be ransomed
With eyes for them and fathers

82. And it would lean, father of Abu Ali
Displaying loyalty to the patron

83. No, not to Banu Muqla, if you knew
Rather to Muqla you see my leaning

84. They approached, then one higher came
So let him remain among the lofty

85. And we have in the patron a model
So the best of peers remains

86. A peer of the patron was never seen
In modern or old books

87. O patron taming steeds the ages long
Remaining superior for the patrons

88. From me in the heart a loyalty
Whose flow remains as long as my praise

89. Pearl of poetry in pure meaning, molded
So thread it, brother of the most high

90. Disposition's molding is the hand of thought
And hands' molding is jewelry of women

91. A natural gift came to you, so fashion it beautifully
An innocent dawn, for beauty is to fashioning

92. From your loyalists to virtue in love
And loyal to your noble ancestors

93. And the affection of free men through time
From the noble heritage of fathers to sons

94. Time hoards from you amid the days
Rancor of grace and shine

95. And for a day it prepares you leadership
With vigor, zeal, and glory

96. Say to one whose merit shadows
Though he spurns praise made in independence

97. So when I send a daughter of my thought to you
She comes walking in shyness

98. If my thought clothes you in praise, how much
Did the rain shower on the thirsty ground?

99. How can I present praise to you and describe
The grandeur of aspirations' temptations

100. When between you and I in proportion, though
My mind regarding wisdom surpassed people of the age

101. Like in arithmetic, from the Reckoner, the distance
The follower of marks