1. From the breath of the trumpet or from the gentle breeze of the trumpet
Have you revived a lifeless one, O wind, who was unburied

2. Or from the fragrance of a breeze from Paradise when it blew
Over flowers dripping with dew

3. Or the meadow whose perfume overwhelmed the breeze
Filling it with scattered fragrance

4. The wind had let loose its excess ties
And the branches sway between advancing and delaying

5. In a garden whose branches were erected and whose train
Became the tail of the morning breeze, between the nominative and genitive cases

6. The water flows between verbs of prevention and negation
And the shade lies between extension and restriction

7. The wind blows gently above its pond
And its water flows freely in captivity

8. Its sides are brought together in grammatical correction
And its water is collected in it in broken plurals

9. The wind embroiders patterns in its waves
And the clouds portray all kinds of images

10. The tender narcissus, its glances are not cast down
So its flower is between frowning and blossoming

11. As if it is gold above pillars
Of emerald in camphor leaves

12. The anemones bloom among the flowers
Like dirhams among dinars

13. We have obeyed cravings when youth has helped us
With endless generosity and favor

14. Youth is an intercessor whose robe's fragrance
Is of two abodes, not the fragrance of pansies

15. The band's flute folds us and unfurls us
With blowing in the flute, not blowing in the trumpets

16. The singing of Shadi, his voice rang out melodiously
As if it spoke from the throat of a zebra finch

17. Shadi's fingers satisfy people if he plays
And answers with the treble and bass

18. Straight-nosed, steady-stepped, complaining of youth
From breaths of an abandoned one

19. His playing on the forearms puzzles tongues
Increasing moisture for a secret it holds

20. When the musician excites and reminds him
Of youth with his fingernails

21. He complains to friends of his bowels and ribs
Of shears' bites or unfolding of saws

22. While you see his cheek above the vintage
Like one deliberating on the excellence of management

23. You see him distressed violently and angered
By striking his strings out of latent spite

24. The dancing girls, their braids have leaned
Over waists like the abdomens of wasps

25. The gown hides their sickness from us but the waistband and the braids' tightness expose them
When they bend with coils pulled by the dunes' ridges from hollows

26. You see waves of buttocks which have collided
In a sea of beauty's water, captivated

27. Each swaying of the hips is divided between feminine and masculine
As if the tremors in her palm as she strikes

28. Are a dawn in which stirs the heart of a raven
She watches the poles with her hands and feet

29. And preserves the origin from loss and change
She Arabizes the dance with a tune, connecting it

30. To grammar through omission and specification
The cupbearer, languid of glance, of slender build

31. Clear-faced, bending a drunken elbow
As if The Merciful molded him as a reminder

32. For those who doubt the maidens and houris
His eyelids darken, though they are dark

33. And his glance is enchanting in captivity
He turns gently, the mixture of its coals

34. Increased only by blowing, without kindling
A fire which seemed to the passionate lover familiar

35. From the cup's side, not the mountainside
It shone in the cupbearer's hands and ignited

36. Its bottles by the gentleness of its influence
As if it is the cup's glow veiled

37. By a spirit of fire in a body of light
The jugs have a babbling at the mixing

38. Like the speech of one confused in words, frightened
As if when pouring into cups they are birds

39. Pecking their young with their beaks
They have tried to avenge their father from us

40. And trample him under feet of storms
So when no mind remained unfettered

41. By the plants, and no heart unmindful
I glanced about my company, and how often did I see

42. A lion dirtied by the glances of a zebra
From every eye like its pair upon it

43. Broken, of deadly power, though unbroken
I say, and the wine has shown its consequences

44. And the cup breathes into it an exhaled breath
You who mixes cups, have you corrupted its beauty?

45. And is strength crowned, O beloved, with crystal?
One who, when he sees the Gardens brought near,

46. And the houris secluded among pavilions,
The lone palace in the depths of the pond, and the

47. Outstretched mansion therein of flasks
To whom do you see the kingdom after God, I said

48. The saying of one whose hopes are abundant, delighted
To the owner of the crown and erected palace, and one

49. Who has spread justice in the land's breadth
He said you mean Chosroes, so I said to him

50. Chosroes son of Hurmuz, not Chosroes son of Sapor
The righteous king, the praised, the successful

51. And many a gainer of kingship, unthanked
A king whose people's praise, when lavished upon him

52. His hands overflow with favor, though not abundant
A star whose rising is beloved to all people

53. As if it is a flame in a drunken eye
He is hoped for and feared, in days of dew and tempest

54. And the sea is between hoped-for and feared
A sun whose rising eclipse the sun's glow

55. As if extracted from it by distillation
The sun should not boast but that it is a label for him

56. And resemblance to him in honor and light
If he willed generosity, his resolve did not consider

57. In his action between advancing and delaying
He meets you before bestowal with glad tidings

58. Open-handed, and after gifts with apologies
The children of Hurmuz saw the path of guidance in him

59. And not every match lights the darkness
Through him their kingdom's policies were reformed

60. As if they had won an elixir from him
How many parties since the evil of dissent appeared in them

61. Perished by his firm-resolved, renowned sword
They hastened to war while the eggs bowed down prostrate

62. And the white and yolk sway between chanting and kneeling
They walked like the gait of cats until when they bore

63. The weight of chains, they walked the walk of sparrows
O you who lavished horses on the day of battle with them

64. But did not come with unthanked effort
If Chosroes took pride in thousands, how many

65. Thousands rooted to one have you granted?
Or did Nu'man get lost in his solitary palace, how many

66. Populated valleys for you with the two cliffs!
In every impassable place made inaccessible

67. Aqueducts are built therein with pipelines
If Aad ibn Shaddad had passed by his Paradise

68. He would dwell there, clashing his worn teeth
No wonder if you head to fulfill a promise

69. The twisted road turns into a straight one
If the furthest Syria yearns for you

70. Then it has inclined to the victorious king of Tyre
So may the distant be joyous through you, sorrow has returned

71. And Shanuuk is in sorrow and confusion
Your fast has deafened the enemies' hearing, and how many

72. A heart of theirs you have opened by breakfasting
I call you, with a sincere servant's call

73. O unique one of the age, hear though uncommanded
I do not claim excuses for delaying your company

74. No lover is excused for distance
But tomorrow if my distance from your side is long

75. It is my great sin, and this praise is my redemption
Without you, poetry would be no wealth of mine

76. Nor would I have excelled with it from a concealed treasure
Any merit whose increase diminished my worth

77. Is like a name increased with a diminutive yaa
But I have not disgraced myself eagerly seeking its rarities

78. Like one who cheapens poetry in praise of Ibn Mansur
My soul's status is above its indentation

79. From buds, and my worth above my allotted
But my times left me behind and put forward one

80. Who was before me in the past eras
As if I am from the celestial spheres of India which necessitated

81. The height of my position due to my extreme lateness
So treat with favor the prime of poems, which have no dowry

82. Other than acceptance and affection, unhidden
To Abu Tayyib al-Mutanabbi their pride

83. Since I have not wasted their musk for the like of camphor
They have softened to express the softness of your glory

84. Out of love, and lengthened to erase the sin of my tardiness