1. I have learned from here and there
You have saddened me, far be it from you, sadness

2. Arise and repel the predatory birds
With a flowing, melodious voice

3. And take care, like the gentle breeze
Of the eyelash of youthful meaning

4. And shake for me the slender, well-formed body
Cultured and refined

5. Regard me with a eyelash
And block your ear from hearing ill of me

6. And unleash the ambitious glance
With those curled twin locks

7. I have become the closest confidant
Or the most compassionate towards your distress

8. And I bite my fingers in you
Yellow, pointing to you in sorrow

9. So he who has tested me has strayed
And my affliction in Qais is evident

10. Or Ibn 'Ajlan even if
The pigeons return and do not tire

11. I have burdened my heart with a weight
Lighter than which is the mountain and heaviness

12. It derives from your meaning a meaning that
Is no fine expression or meaning for me

13. Whether you see me conversing
Or failing, with tears flowing

14. Or raising from my eyes
Those broken by coquetry and sorrow

15. O Muhammad, your poetry is pleasing
In the world, in expression and meaning

16. In it flow Zuhair
And charm with coquetry, Zuhair's cheek

17. From its canes I have gained
Artistry upon artistry

18. Increase for us from the poetry which
Is deficient, with additions increase for us