1. A Brilliant Image (by Ahmed Shawqi)
The facets of poetry are revealed in it

2. So observe, you will find a great mind
Abundant with purpose and an eminent face

3. And observe, you will find profound feelings
And sound rhetoric and ingenious thought

4. Why has he placed his head on his palm?
I wonder which torment afflicts him

5. Why does he look with a sleepy eye?
I wonder which scene it surveys

6. Perhaps in life he lost his way
And wandered confused in its desert

7. Thus does rhyme act, alas
For rhyme and those who pursue it