1. Her walk I see a neck or a cheek
Perhaps O Saad you intend a breastplate

2. Slowly with them cutting the distance
To the pilgrims' abode hand in hand

3. When you arrange a country with steps
You fancied a necklace upon it scattered

4. If the right to a hand was not lost
We would spread for their toes the cheeks

5. And if the far hindered the meeting and despaired me, rightfully so stingy
I rode the wishes and steeds of wishes

6. That soften the rigid and bring closer the far
An inspiration shows you the beauty of many

7. Like flowers of meadows a path strewn
We took off the morn and wore the night

8. To it and it was a new cloak
We knocked where the gloom ember

9. And the swords refuse but firewood
And rain has bared the lightning whites

10. And swore not to dissolve the clouds
And for the caravan under the swords of lightning

11. Eyelids that refused to taste sleep
And the settlements wore blindness

12. From the making of the cool abandoned ones
So its fires were alerted and the eyelids

13. And its lamps and slaves were awakened
A pillar on his honor does not give refuge

14. To the humiliation of love a sturdy youth
If only the tears taught its making

15. To fell the captive and shelter the chased
And may God not remove those faces

16. Yes, and may the covenant water those pacts
And the conversations of nights the blackness of eyelids

17. For me from them white and blackness
When they glance a raid to the eyes

18. They encountered the flashes and shook the firewood
Spears when unfurled for the fight

19. They make their tongues the arrowheads
Gazelles suppressing no tomorrow

20. Like the devout in shrine except generosity
For the sake conceded the peace

21. Even if that was meager gain
Return to heartbroken Nashed his heart

22. For it is not the first right returned
And do not trust the harmony of beauty

23. For it has after union dissidence
If something could be eternal

24. When the savior owned eternity
A young man whose fire in towns or roamed

25. Like his thoughts disobeying death
Of high columns, long blades

26. Stretching to glory hands stretched
He is the man you recognize in munificence

27. Calm, even, and word straightforward
If oppressed he is firm like the sword

28. And if he flowed in love melted in generosity
He softens so if hardships gathered

29. He was a cross upon them strong
And if the clouds of sorrows barren

30. He methodically struck palm in palm
A sovereign free in dew and tongues

31. That gladdens the visit a poem
You are astonished at him saying and doing

32. When he undertakes beginning or repeating
Good tidings to your eye the day of peace

33. When the veil permits the delegations passage
He is the granter horses before the kidneys

34. Thirsty wolves to the stall a fuel
He attains with pardon the uttermost of wishes

35. So how with seriousness seeks he more
Of a people their past like the youths

36. He established laudable and turned laudable
They subdued the rebellious lands

37. And undid its disobediences and avoidances
Lions of clamor and rescuers of imagery

38. Roam about the hilltops and water the plains
As if time emulated them

39. Issuing with its news or aiding
When warred they increased support

40. And if the booty little, said plenty
And if the swords pouring down

41. And the assaults of absence were lions
For them white crescents they encounter

42. And the faces differing with small moons
Swords not unseemly for their cub

43. A suckling that they blackened
Their palms mothers of reconciliation

44. Whenever thirsty they reddened a vein
Theirs in the blessed glory refined

45. That combines with glorious old
And the sword named it the thin

46. And swords' name pertains to iron
Tomorrow the king's guarantor from it most

47. That shepherds his herald hearing iron
He protected traveling and built towering and made

48. Lofty so he stayed fortified erected
And settled until the corpses of lands

49. So their children crave no cradles
And the stars of his days walked

50. Despite every enemy aggrandizing
His pens like his swords

51. Silence a wretched and enliven a happy
He tossed his bows toward the borders

52. So he deafened a foe and toppled the envious
And sang the song of his resolute father

53. Like that the puppy emulates the lion
The arrows adorned like the polished

54. Adorned the flexed clouds
The mouth laughed openly at it

55. And the hearts for it were prepared
And his nights became white of face

56. When his days had been black
And the rain did not deprive despite scarcity

57. But came to it benefiting
From his determinations a troop

58. And if he walked every horizon alone
Unique less numerable by him

59. And from the jewel's nobility named unique
And whoever you were his father

60. To him it is wonder keeping an infant
He undoes knots of problems

61. And knots for the princes pacts
And insists his glory manifest

62. And if a praiser shook him he resisted diversion
And I am a jewel picked out

63. If the wealthy hoarded jewels
And I did not covet but good affection

64. And sufficient for me is one like you affectionate
And know your praise adorns what

65. The jewel crowned a crown and neck
And I roam without companion

66. So fold the night and I hunt the frightened
And I disdain what people say

67. So I gift the gazelle to meadows grazing
And no good in poetry after old age

68. If you were not a listening recaller
And if I live I sent it in your glory

69. A sensible meaning and word well-guided
By the glory not contention but praise in accord

70. From the honor of purpose brand new
So welcome oh absent with the daughters of Quraish

71. For were it not for your traits they would not be absent
Faded even if their birth remote

72. For them Labeed would rise a withered old
And your understanding still husbands them

73. Circling to it so shine a poem
The meter preserves the flow and meaning of the original Arabic poem in this English translation.