1. As soon as I recalled the past days
And the era of Layla and my early youth

2. My tears flowed profusely down my cheeks
Like streams on each cheek

3. I had cherished it, but now devalued it
Time may make cheap what was once dear

4. O you, who glance with doe eyes
Like what you bestow with supple twigs

5. Your jewellery is enough, so why
Does the goldsmith adorn you with more bracelets?

6. Your soft hair, O you there, why
Didn't the comb arrange it but rather the foot?

7. Your ruby lips, why did they forbid
Me that cooling chain?

8. They said you loved living for them
Yes, I sought the litter in the beginning

9. Because in it was a young gazelle
Who throws then silences me with death

10. The censurers tire me out blaming me
About you, and who hears the blamer?

11. You did not bare your breast except to bend
Resembling the withered honeybee

12. The sword of your glances cannot be sheathed
Unless you sheathe the sword and the polish

13. Oh what a life in the sands of fever!
Is saying "Oh" of any use to me?

14. My friends, how long will we remain?
Don't you hear the cock crowing?

15. On our vineyard the vines are filled
Their bunches have ripened, so be filled

16. Drink early from its berries
Until you see our necks bending

17. And bring in the travel bags what
Feeds me and its springs are the sweetest

18. Every generous person we have heard of
Except Ka'un ibn Husain, no!

19. My friend Abu Ahmad
His hands have filled the refuge

20. If he shook a spear, it was to pierce the skulls
Or drew a sword, it was to strike the tall

21. Helper Awn clothes with his surplus
The heavily loaded and indebted

22. If God decreased the provisions for people
And I came to the Shiekh, he would not decrease

23. May God preserve this generosity in him
He carried above whoever carried

24. O Awn! Who is like you, resembling
Your father, rather your grandfather, builder of heights?

25. The stars are not like gravel
Nor brass like gold, no, not at all!

26. You united the people until they were
An army flooding the plains and hills

27. Every tribe has only a few people
While you are the broadest and tallest

28. If the praise and praiser fell short
Of you, then in your forbearance, accept

29. If not for you, I would not have left
My abode which worries the uneasy

30. And I crossed from my path the darkness of Zabeed
And traveled the width of barren arrows

31. And Hayys, not a date palm with me in its expanse
A thousand, yet I did not pass with it as destination

32. And I crossed from my east Shameer to
Hidbalah, which you would think me lost

33. So between its west and your company
I dedicate these words and speech

34. I do not follow mirages after
Seeing this flooding river

35. Nor by a faint lightning will I be guided
For your face is the dawn when it lights

36. O fire starter, and protector of neighbour
O son of two loving parents

37. Live in happiness and remain in bounty
An ignorant fool never experienced