1. O Baghdad, you riders, hasten
To the river of peace at dawn

2. And when you stand at Rusafa, recite:
My heart, but beware he who understands it

3. Do you carry a longing greeting
That blew with the fragrant souls of youth

4. The new moon grazing the specter of a sleeping one
And grazing the star, the new moon of one awake

5. Not everyone who knew love is a knower
Of the essence of love, outwardly and inwardly

6. The affection of one who loved you first
Faded until you see him steadfast at the end

7. And I, whom passion took his heart
From where there is no ability to return

8. I started to blame my critic until when
He knew my love, he became my apologizer

9. I love the noble among men even if
I but hear of him, if I cannot see

10. And I love the traces of knowledge and seek
The writings of the scholar over the prosperity of the merchant

11. People have different pursuits in what they love
Going between right and left

12. In every heart there is an idol of a beloved
That fades leaving it to a passing heart

13. The ambitions of a young man do not end, so if
One yearning passes, another renews in the mind

14. A long hope and life is short
Flowing between springs and sources

15. And I cried over youth and its prime
Wasting my tears fruitlessly on loss

16. Man does not know the value of a blessing
Until it passes, and he wakes up a loser

17. Time goes by as if
It had not come in small and large

18. And the old man is like the boy, both
Think they were born today

19. I tried the morals of time and its people
So I knew my day before the fading day

20. And I was patient, but when there was not
In my hand averting the affliction, so where is the merit of the patient?

21. O you specter, disturbing my passion
With promises that flash without lightning

22. If you do not want loyalty, then do not promise
The stinginess of the miser and the procrastination of the betrayer

23. How did you find your way to me under the darkness
In which the eye of the shooting star is blinded?

24. You are the apparition visiting your like in isolation
If only your like were in the throbbing of the bird

25. Can you deliver a message to the great elder
From a helpless one who was made an agent of the weak?

26. I dotted it like a bride with tears
Like pearls, so it is the prose of the poet

27. It was escorted to one whose door does not withstand
Even if supported by the rhetoric of Abdul Qaher

28. Al-Lawdhi the perfect, the unique whose
Deeds surpass the words of the poet

29. A favor I brought to Abdul Hamid
From the generosity he bestowed on free women

30. Poetry was made easy for me by the craft of a goldsmith
I return it with the craft of a breaker

31. O tumultuous foaming sea we did not
Cast nets for you, yet you blessed us with pearls

32. Secrets of a necklace you contained
The elixir of a solving from Jabir's craft

33. Between you and I there is a folded covenant
Fold the register to the spreading place of return

34. This age left me no treasure
So I made it in my heart some of my treasures