1. He spent the night pouring me wine till dawn
The saliva-wine on rose petals he poured

2. With a gait so gentle in his embrace
Playful, wandering - and in his eyes, maidens

3. He tires of me when I admonish him
Yet is spirited when tired of my admonishing

4. His estrangement from me and sorrow are done
I remain in sorrow though it's passed and gone

5. I'll not forget the night we were together
When he came and our love was bare

6. Youth scatters poems of life
Dew trips and stumbles here on blossoms

7. Among youths in darkness of fate
They became like pearls buried and lost

8. A band who in their gentleness
Regretted startling a doe in the wastes

9. Their days either bright dawn
Of faces or dark gloom of misdeeds

10. They took pleasure and rested in it
Between wines and chaste maidens

11. They reached the eternal domain
And picked from his plenty the ripest fruits

12. Bestowing bounty, pouring joy
Excelling all in giving and plenty

13. No shortcoming in fulfilling his promise
No flaw from his hands in drink pure

14. Sun of mankind, his dawn shines for us
If gloomy, his face miserly and veiled

15. To allies and enemies he is
Giving and harming with his hands

16. Food for famine and in times of war
A piercing blade in the battle

17. When he arms his resolve one day
Alike are he and the brave warrior

18. Wealth that dispels my poverty
And destination from my time and era

19. He ported my fate from misfortunes
Taking my hand from them as wine poured

20. You trusted with religion for us
Lavish when life is swift and short

21. None but you in my praise saying
You revived what rain makes live

22. So my life for you, downpour of munificence
Motionless forms describe the forms

23. When for you from me they took flight
In their composition for me birds

24. For one hoping and attaining
From you the attained, escaping poverty

25. Abundance you brought, not report
And without you, if true, only tale

26. Hear them gentle, though with roughness
Bashar bin Burd heard with no sense

27. With meanings running, their words
Came better than ink's adornment

28. My lordship their flaw in presence
And the Bedouin envy the sedentary

29. Celebrate Eid, and be like Khalid
Preferring praised, praiseworthy works