1. Her charms distracted my gaze out of censure
And her excelling me forbade that I should rival

2. You see the pride of kingship on his brow
So you read a line filled with awe

3. He whose forefathers and ancestors were
Kings not idols if he claims descent

4. So O watcher of Islam are you looking
At a servant who praised you and was wordy

5. At a poet who called when fates gaped
Their mouths with me so fear them

6. Did not the drinking of wine tell the tale of me
And the caravan sing of me when I was sober

7. Nor did the virgins in the tents speak
Of my missteps, twisting the myrtle intertwined with red

8. I ransom those poets gloating at my story
A youth in poetry's sky rising like a star

9. A youth who fared well but he who cast
Or transmitted even if the arrogant desired conflict

10. They thought that if I fell I would break
Rhymes or my intellect would temptation

11. My body would weaken so they insulted or were silent
But anger between my jaws did not speak

12. And how much poetry its author being mean
Beneath words of one hitting and piercing

13. Ask death about me, how I dodged its unfamiliarity
And my soul battled it when enraged

14. We drank and after our drinking was
Upon narcissus before aged white hair

15. Dijlah washed upon the barge a bank
Waving and a bird flying and buzzing

16. For us there was in the brow of time a night
Like your worry for living in it was fertile

17. Time pardoned it after it was angry
And did good by it after it was guilty

18. So oh my joy had I survived intact
And oh my shame if my ship sank

19. If I do not act wild in the ends of my amusement
There is no shame if events leapt at me

20. And patience over the good and evil of wine
Is what I said suitable for cups and welcomed

21. I will go and the striking of lightning colours my comfort
And I walk some of my blood already coloured

22. If the minister's eye saw a poet
On a ship God had made his ship

23. He would see entertainment dead and pleasure prone
Slain and the corpse of joy tortured

24. And the elders of my people blamed me early
Extravagance by my life, harm and astonishment

25. They say repent, do not return to the like
Alas, advice is lost upon me and failed

26. And how many times before it I died of intoxication
And returned but the return was sweeter and meeker

27. So forever either you see me dragged
By my tail drunk or broken cloven hoofed

28. But upon the freeman is the burden of my supplies
If the fate of time takes me on its course

29. And when the union with oblivion parted from us
And a year followed that was hoped and dry

30. We pawned and spent and sold goblets
And jewelry and treasure appealing and loved

31. I saw my daughter had kept some of her jewelry
So I hinted to her and was subtle

32. The anklets of women circle while I do not see
Sand had an anklet so she said come father!

33. You robbed the slave girls of their jewelry leaving
No bracelet or pendant on the throat absent

34. So I said to her the minister's shadow sustains us
If time was pleased with him it censured

35. If the full moon Sabur is rising
Then I do not care about those setting