1. And Ghada is like a supple branch
Smiling over the brim of a goblet

2. Passionate for blocking and guarding
Her cheeks glow and her heart is stern

3. None can console me but her
She has banished sleepiness from my eyelids

4. And made the garb of sadness my attire
And charged my heart with obsession

5. She has a figure like a rod of misery
And glances that wound like an awl

6. She is well-rounded of hips and breaths
If only she would be fair or console

7. She has suffered from yearning as I suffer
Weeping for the grey hair laughing on my head

8. Enough, for poverty has bound my palm
Spare me, for God transcends all bounds

9. Mohammed the towering palm tree
Yet today for my grey hair I do not care

10. Reviving the meadows of generous date palms
At ease like the relaxed watchman

11. With a bloom like the shining light
Radiant in the darkness of frowns

12. Pure and virtuous in his deeds
Broad of arm, harvesting the sickles

13. Hopeful, knowing no despair
And judging with justice and balance

14. His building and the days on firm foundations
Lions fear him in their lairs

15. Lord of the brave and valiant
Filled with poured out bags of gold

16. With shoulders free of any dishonor
And wearing the garb of praise

17. His pens in the field of parchment
Flowing with favors and gifts

18. His views are clearer than torches
In nights of complex tribulations

19. O pillar of faith, steadfast in crisis
Against hard battles and fierce combat

20. Each day a day of high honor
I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind

21. From every whispering devil
You released me from the shackles of destitution

22. And from meeting every lowly scoundrel
So praise landed as fitting tribute

23. While dispraise from the eminent is despised
O towering pillar of the Abbasids

24. Let your glance fall away, unheeding
Her days are beauty and joy

25. Near you like holidays and weddings
O son of honored noble lords

26. O best cloak, source of consolation
You attract highborn ladies with trinkets

27. Take them like earth's luminous stars
And the northern waft in the thickets

28. More eloquent than Abu Nuwas' verse
And the eminent poet Abu Firas

29. Greet in peace and remain in sanctity
For the King who envies the miserable