1. Has your heart recovered from Sulayma and yearned?
Though you were enriched by her love in days gone by

2. Tell Abu Humran that my people
Confided and solitary souls find intimacy

3. They sold their steeds to fatten their mothers
So a gallant could sleep on their beds

4. A cure, when she unveils herself from him
And they whisper, she says to him "What do you think?"

5. But the old woman of our house is withered
Her chest bones are visible and she is content

6. She is satisfied with providing for her family
Bread soaked in broth or grilled meat and kabobs

7. Whoever dislikes his life, let him come to us
He will find death or gain wealth

8. I knew from avoiding the depraved
That steeds, not homes, bring safety

9. They went away, their sights on their shoulders
While my insight gallops with a young camel

10. The swaying of the riding camels continues
Above the rider, heedless of what came

11. But if you drive him from behind, you make him walk
A man with calloused feet and bare legs

12. But if you look at him, dripping wet
You say "This is like an unbroken colt"

13. But if you face him, it is as if he is
A lark, hesitant to fly though it has seen

14. I found steeds to be manifest honor
Saving from gloom and revealing the darkness

15. Spending nights at a frightening border
Leaping for the insolent, the wealthy

16. When you see a warrior and a pacifist
Let the warrior be judged where he wishes

17. The fellowship of Al-Ju'fi is unending
Even if it is said to have ended

18. Brothers of truth did not see you aggrieved
If you become needy, what befell you, befell them

19. They wiped their beards, then said "Greetings"
Would that I were among the people when they stroked their beards!

20. And a band I outfitted with a band
Until their elite said "This is the young man"

21. They do not complain of death but with a moan
The camels' flanks marked by the howdahs

22. Emerging from the midst of dust angry
Like clenched fingers, tawny, joined

23. They plot against themselves with glimpses
As if scorpions bit granite

24. When I am firm, I am firm without lying
And when I pierce, I break my spear or it goes

25. The descendants of Awad, I confronted their spears
I routed them, excellent in glory and distinction

26. O people of 'Arjalah, they came upon a gap
They went about while their guide despaired until he cried

27. The winds of Syria surrounded them
Until they came to us after the dew fell

28. So I rose in the grove of the valley, and in my hand
Was the color of polished wood, sturdy as saplings

29. I prodded my upright, twisted spear
Like the water at the spear's edges, it had folds

30. They dispersed from me, and I stood with the remains
Of the true polished wood, sturdy as saplings

31. The dogs of the tribe howled among us
Eating carrion, those who were spared sated

32. Among the nights is an accursed night
Dusty, with no guidance for the one who dared it

33. I tasked myself to its limit and trial
And knew the people had no wealth in it

34. I approached plunging into the midst of their crowds
And the tithe of the shepherd I took, so what do you think?

35. Their corpses cast shadows upon his body
The sand grouse chicks played, and he was done

36. I took vengeance for our blood from Water
So if death has quenched its thirst today

37. The hearts' secrets were exposed, I did not abandon my heart
He forgot his beloved and his heart's anguish subsided

38. When a lover is spurned by his beloved
Then his company is enough of a torment for the young man

39. Worry, if you do not let it run its course
Is not like one who went far away, O Umayma

40. A hope that lodged in the abodes of disgrace
And the living are the worst of those under the soil

41. Their lives are a disgrace compared to their deaths
Both accompanying them and parting are treason

42. If a wolf howls for his companion, he howls
They are not roused to fear their neighbor

43. Or does the ambush of a hidden foe threaten them
From a place far away?

44. Is there in the sky a climbing place for one ascending
It is the same for one who climbs up and acquires

45. By God, you are excellent in the clear path
Since no lowland is more disgraceful than the valleys' road

46. Strange is he who defiles his honor
When honor after its loss cannot be bought

47. A garment is worn out, then another bought
He protects his garb, guarding it from harm

48. Except for coasters among them, there is companionship
Swaying shoulders, all have become compliant

49. And hollow women whose frames have thickened
Necks like plaited palm fronds, clustered like saplings

50. And I possessed the lead of a hollow swift one
Galloping on five legs, pure