1. Your eyes did not see me on the day of parting
I deceive my heart with memories of meeting

2. And I extinguish with tears the fire of passion
That helped set it ablaze

3. Swaying between rising and standing still
Ruling between comfort and yearning

4. I remember longing through sending messages to conceal it
And I glance sideways with downcast eyes

5. Everything is easier for me than patience
And the patience of the longing lover is hypocrisy

6. Oh my friend from the tribe of Qais
In affection lies the refinement of morals

7. Sing to me of them to delight me
And give me my tears to drink from a worn-out cup

8. And take sleep away from my eyelids for I
Have cast off well-being for the sake of lovers

9. And ask the north wind about the spread of a land
I used to revive with its fragrance my eyelids

10. If she walked in the valley of Khuzam
She did there the work of the perfumer

11. I have a gloomy time ahead to the water of her face
That I cross with all I can muster

12. It wishes for the extension of my hand so it can
Wipe in it my scarce livelihood

13. Without what the wings of my father aspired to
A distinguished, quick-witted man of bitter taste

14. Hardships avoid him when
His palm embraces the necks of the obedient

15. I have become experienced with nights, so my consolation is
What I see of her affection for me

16. Her singing is the strongest means in adversity
And achieving the goal through failure

17. How many places have I filled my mouth in
With an army, noisy and clamorous

18. The atmosphere has covered itself with clouds so the eye of
The sun is veiled from shining

19. With men racing their young camels
When they leap up to the necks

20. Every young man sees death as life
And lofty goals as the means to ascend

21. Inspire them on the nights’ changing courses
And make me needless of soft beds

22. I have pulled the reins in every way
The patience of ostriches grew weary of traversing it

23. I am the dust of gazelles, friend of the heights
War on the smooth neck, enemy of harmony

24. So leave me to ruin for I am its rejection
And drive away the stars in the horizons with me

25. And to Ahmed who remained a pillar of glory
When its rising began in irrigation

26. I have been attracted by means to the heights through
My passion to harness them in a bond

27. She wore her adornment so became occupied
With beautifying herself beyond eyes

28. That is the dissimulator of the engagement pact if
The words intimated to her the proposal

29. The band of resolution in the heavy afflictions
The mind wandering in precise meanings

30. I am not content to say he is the full moon and since
It was completed, no defects touched it

31. Excel in righteousness, high ambitions with her children
And see if you find any catching up to them

32. I used to judge the world against the glory
Until you restricted my freedom

33. How can I not pick for it the fruit of praise
While those palms are from my palms

34. My thoroughbred steed stops at it
And to these heights lies my race

35. I am not generous to every person with my gaze
Even if the archer is in my pupil

36. My camel for sale is expensive for every good soul
Except for the worth of my spear's embrace

37. The holiday came to you securing the quenching
Of a spring for you with murmuring

38. Meet it with wishes and recite to it my poetry
You will find it inclined to it with passion

39. And be gentle with its conscience, wearing my love
Meandering between its bosom and purity

40. Ruin is not reassured by you, nor have
You ceased encountering a group with separation

41. And time obeyed the heights in you
So the nights are known for their discord