1. Did you not know what the graceful sandgrouse said
As they passed by the caravan, while it was departing?

2. So he who did not forbid the birds praised them
And my heart was sure they were melancholic

3. The first of the birds that passed was a blessing for us
And a night's stay by an agreeable playmate

4. Your gaze with languid eyes followed them
Disheveled, radiant, clearly colored

5. And a black curl on a spindle's forehead
Called by desire, more rosy than a scattering pomegranate

6. And the pleasure of wine heals heartache after gloom
With what flows from its shaded veins

7. Its food and the dust of the earth above its surface
Is a crawling vine and palms waving freely

8. So when the torrents receded, a canal appeared to it
Dug by an autumn rain, its banks collapsed

9. When you taste its mouth, you'd say it has the taste of wine
The spout came close until it mixed with it, overflowing

10. And in ivory and henna are hands whose fingers
Are like gazelle fat untouched by the adorning bracelet

11. So how would the youth be after old age and after
You were extolled and praised by every praiser?

12. And I was annoyed that the jealous one wanted me
While my regrets were the grumbling elders

13. The owners of calumny turned away from me though I see
My words arousing the passionate women

14. And the playful teasing of the slender-waisted is a delight
I sought, and the youths within me are impetuous

15. With white lower parts as if their burdens are
The palm trees of the villages and the waving grasses

16. So obscure letters were composed for us
To fulfill our need with laxity and freedom

17. Telling us of hidden passions, and above them
Are the shades of rooms, and the mounted scout wandering

18. Whispering to us with a wink without our talk
And fulfilling wishes while they are flirting

19. And there reached us from them a gentle fragrance
Of musk whose scent leads to the beloved strongly scenting

20. They prayed the night prayer and sprinkled it
On their cotton robes, good admonishers

21. So we spent the night on the carpets while the white
Illuminated for us their shining lamps

22. When they captivated us in conversation, hearts
Swayed to them beyond the passionate souls

23. While the jealous one just before was biting his fingers
Like a lion biting on an axe handle raging

24. Gloomily returning the two cubs to their mother
While he was gored by us and by them charging

25. So when we parted, they bid us farewell in tears
And provisioned us while they were sincerest

26. So my companions raised the mounts, and with moaning they left
Yearningly, while the eyes were most ardent

27. Woe to their mother from disgrace, if she were to change
And make peace with those we make war!

28. And a blond from a pomegranate shop has become
My morning draught, though the East did not see dawn break

29. So I served her freely as if her companion were
A brother of time, while some servers were wasteful

30. So today a filled goblet missed me
And roast meat and reeds were cheap

31. If we stay up through the night drinking wine
Accompanied by the dark in which lamps are shining

32. From dawn until evening we greet
And clasp each other's hands affectionately

33. When we come out to the open, our feet
Sink in the sand while it is soft and flowing

34. And an old shelter where most of its people
Are rambling and confused, late into the night wandering

35. My brave heart settled there at the first sign
And a drawn hardened sword whose sheath is clashing

36. A Yemeni whose color is like salt, his back quivers
When stirred, stamped on poison, wounding

37. It removes the daughters of resolve from their dwellings
And whatever part of an arm it meets is crushed

38. As if the ruins above its column were
Locusts above a palm tree while it is rising

39. And a sickly dark night whose star
The fog obscured, so it is consulting

40. I imposed myself on her when she accustomed to my company
With vague waters and the stream is receding

41. And a valley that became green and its water yellowed
From the turbidity of heavy rain in which waves collide

42. I set out with it across a barren desert whose shade
Shunned the interior except when the winds blow at it

43. So it crossed a expanse in which sins that spilled
Over ridges from the widest type, lamenting

44. Leakings that distribute water in its chambers
As tide distributes what the surging tides moved

45. Like the wind of Khuzama that an evening
North wind stirred with continuous heavy downpours

46. So the blond forelocks appeared and the landmarks
And the racing steed became visible to them