1. This passion cannot be diminished,
It seeks love and desire.

2. Unravel the tears' knots into its knots,
If its love has made you drink the bitter cup.

3. Play with your cloak like a wand, for
Its limbs have gifted you open spaces.

4. Of the traces of his shining stars, nothing remains
Except tears, for they are lights.

5. They made the protectors their protection and migrated,
So wherever they settled were gazelles and mountain goats.

6. They swept the reed beds and the black did
What the black does not do.

7. These dwellings are like dwellings, so ask
About their full moons, for they have darkened.

8. Blame separation, though you have not bound
Any agreement of solace, so when will gathering be blamed?

9. That life is for God, for between us
There is no enmity and our habits are not hostile.

10. The air is clear, the springs are sweet,
The meadows verdant, and the breeze gentle.

11. I tried to remove passion but it clung to me,
A man pulled at it and so did an old woman.

12. The zephyr of Najd blew, and youth blew for me,
So passions met passions.

13. What fault is it of the critic that he stripped
My excuse away and my excuse is an innocent damsel?

14. Rather, how can love suit me and its abode
Is below the lowly, and I below the Gemini?

15. Would that the rain of clouds sates me, not
Would that I sate and not the thirsty.

16. It is the shoulder of resolve which if
It were a wind, they'd say it was fate.

17. And I have a thought which if its light shines forth
The intelligent would witness it is intelligence.

18. Fate cast its ropes and he chose,
And he prevents like an unwedded person.

19. How many a verse whose structure is raised
By pillars, its highest being the lofty.

20. It brings the dead to life after their demise
And sometimes it kills the living by it.

21. Its words like meteors except
In every discourse, a shower of meteors.

22. And I belong to the elite of Bani Uday,
Where glory grows stout.

23. A people who are the caves of the age and its people,
And a people naturally courageous.

24. They fetch orations though it is perilous
And hasten to war though it is demise.

25. They address with tongues of blades which
Without them the orators would stammer.

26. With each well-aimed sword that
Severs the head of the tyrant when the clamor arises.

27. A shoot whose origin is protected, as though
Under the standard's fold there is a standard.

28. Proportionate in all limbs, his chest
A heart, and his heart altogether dark.

29. If the horizons darken, he is a flame,
Or if dangers darken, he is a light.

30. He rushes to the fire of turmoil, likening it
To fingers from which water overflows.

31. The neighing din shakes him as though
The grey mare judged against him.

32. The sons of honored Lakhm, a group
Who do not waver and in firmness lies praise.

33. They spread their accounts before their Khamis
In war, which is the white banner.

34. They took from Al-Nu'man a canon of virtues
By which bounty lasted for their guest.

35. They struck their abodes with travelers' whips, so
The stranger and the near were equal.

36. And the two guests controlled their wealth
As though they were their partners.

37. The shame of time fears them so its sinner
Did not know in ease what distress was.

38. A lineage, if bloom were in its shining
Dawn and dusk would resemble one another.

39. More magnificent than the shining moon, but
The words of Abdullah about it are howling.

40. I have gathered the accounts, so come with a tribe
To which the eloquent assign nobility even if it is a female ostrich.

41. Forge as is your old habit a lineage
And leave Udayy and go as you wish.

42. And I reckon your mother, o wavering one, mixed
So people altogether are your mixed-race.

43. Do not deny, for in your poem there is solecism,
Its words will forever testify against you.

44. Cleanse it of terrible mistakes and solecisms
And go, let the scholars correct it for you.

45. And transmit it fully voweled for too often
You misspelled what the poets composed for you.

46. And direct your arrows into your core, for
Only equals and peers compete.

47. Ubayd, no man has lost who has a supporter
When banners tremble.

48. And zeal has roused for a Nabataean tribe
To show you enmity, o eloquent one.

49. Ubayd, Jarir has no grudge against you
If views showed you his path.

50. The lightning of meeting deceived you, so you feared it
As a mountain gap though no clouds poured upon you.

51. And you asked in delivering yourself when
You supposed cowardice that they were panegyrists.

52. So you mounted the departing camel and the horizons narrowed
In your eyes, both dusty and green.

53. And you left your perfection, o despicable one, though
The cattle were only for the generous community.

54. It was from plunder so returns to its origin
In his bounty, and so are things.

55. Behold, your misdeeds have led your ruin by force.
Die in sorrow, for illness has befallen you.

56. Virtuous deeds do not improve the conduct of a corrupt one;
Improving the conduct of his walk are calamities.

57. And God knows best about worshippers, and His judgment
Is just, and perhaps in agony lies healing.

58. And they turned their backs on my feelings,
And the fire cannot be kindled by allies.

59. I ignored them until we were ignorant in folly
That they were blind.

60. And if friends are not equitable,
Know them to be enemies.

61. If the inclination of their love does not stand with justice,
Then I have blame in the wake of reproach.

62. And the enmity of poets, what they have heard of it,
So let them do after this what they wish.