1. What is with that green mole
In the fire as if it were in water

2. And of the wonders, a fire has appeared
In a garden made inaccessible to martyrs

3. O gazelle in life around her bracelets
Dark skinned girded with a dark sash

4. What do we expect while war still rages
When you face us with the white banner

5. Do not be proud of shedding blood with your eyes
For we have eyes that shed blood

6. And leave boasting to me with redness and cheek
For I have turned with a red cheek

7. In the blue tent, it seemed as if
You had spent the night above the blue dome

8. And I saw your eye in the blackness of clothes
So I thought it had become one of the caliphs

9. Wait, for your beauty is an unjust state
That has darkened so it has no long survival

10. You have blocked the paths of men, so what if
You blocked the generous like the prince of princes

11. The inheritor of honor which makes him needless
Of establishing a position and raising a building

12. And the founder of reputation which makes him needless
Of honor inherited from forefathers

13. His new surpasses the old
Like the craft of pentameter for poets

14. His pens and swords have bonded
And become alike in awe and sharpness

15. His ancestors taught him generosity
So he employed that teaching for his children

16. Muhammad follows the paths of the trusted one
Like a lion cub following the lion in the plains

17. In the east, a west for the lands like its east
It dispels with the two moons from the seer's eye

18. The two moons, for which the sun has no obligation
Of a dawn or for the full moon a time of night

19. Shawqi, my longing for those lands and who is in them
Is like the invalid's longing for cure of illness

20. It sends us the most fragrant breeze, so do not say
The fragrant breeze traveled from Al-Zawra

21. I have purified for its noble dweller my affection
And upon loving him have based my loyalty

22. None can buy my heart but him
So he has with my heart the preemption rights of partners

23. If I do not visit him, then my letters will visit
Yearning with every maiden messenger

24. Submitting greetings to him is an obligation with us
Like the submission of the praying one, and supplication

25. I have overdone praising the prince, so he said
You have been excessive, so leave some for my peers

26. So I responded, leave some superiority in virtues
For the people, and after judge my mistakes

27. O you who have wronged the noble when you divided with them
And took each fine quality, pure and shining

28. I saw poetry in you obey me
So I see you accommodate me in composing

29. It shows me the meaning I praise with
While I fashion for it the wording of my praise

30. So for you is the beauty, as that is a soul its body
Is words counted through it among the living