1. Your likeness recurs from the horizon of my fanciful thoughts
Afflicting me from its distant horizons

2. It revives ardent yearnings from the nominations of fate
And no use in greeting those who kneel in prayer

3. When she leans for an embrace, she shows affection
The affection of a graceful gazelle at a well-spread repast

4. When she reaches us, she does not arrive deliberately
And when she deserts, she shows us intended desertion

5. She turns a heart that does not soften to youth
And tears that do not flow from the bosom of ardent love

6. My passion and possession went to her extremities
While the horseman in reaching her is an ascetic monk

7. People are either desirous without possession
Or possessed without desire

8. The rain watered the environs of the sanctuary
From the sands of twisting sands to the still sands

9. Ever verdant from the meadows, lush
With redness of light upon it penetrating

10. The scent of the loved ones reminds us whenever
It blows through wings of the cold night

11. Anemones carrying dew as though they are
Tears of the Pleiades on the cheeks of the maidens

12. As though the produce of the apples in the brilliance of morning
Are golden coins from Tibet and far off lands

13. Encampments scattered in the gardens flourishing
With every sweet new water from pure springs

14. When a nice wind blows upon them, it reveals for it
Rills of a torrent flowing over them with purpose

15. As though the hand of victory of the Khagan came
With those lightning bolts flashing

16. Bestowing freely when he initiates grace
With the first of gifts recurring

17. I saw the dew become a confidante conforming
To its nature without a pact

18. It wrapped itself above those standing so they
Yearned expectantly for the visiting delegation

19. The loud voice makes people lower before him
Vessels of words like gentle winds

20. They wade in veneration, the tallest extend their hands
And the most dignified reveal themselves in the spectacles

21. And I did not see the like of men compete
To excellence until a thousand counted as one

22. No fault in his manners except he
Feels stranger's woe among them, with little aid

23. The generosity of these manners, anger slept its sleep
In the breast of the envious plotter

24. And you will not discern in fate a place of grace
If you do not guide yourself to it with an envier

25. His outstanding view and his affability suffice
To a reliance on deficient poetry

26. My abode where hardship pitches its tent
Informs of the understanding of generous heroes

27. And something of my craft is happening in my field
With which I capture the minds of wandering ode

28. And I rightfully deserve his public notice not to disregard me
When I address him lengthily with poems

29. I compose for him bracelets of ice as ornament
And string together his conversation in a threading of necklaces

30. It suffices my blessed brother as reward when he mounts
Coursers of poetry above fate everlasting

31. I possessed by it sympathy for foes and it created for me
Bonds of kinship in distant men

32. The beauty of nights in your survival so may
Your survival in a lifetime upon them endure

33. And you have filled a life from my father victory he
Is of glorious lineage and slumbering forefathers

34. When he braces himself for glory, he braces himself with resolve
In which a glorious one succeeding glorious subsides

35. And if he seeks far-reaching pursuits of glory
He attains it with sincere and fatherly exertion

36. As the palm of the giving hand extended
Its fingers to a shoulder in munificence and aid

37. It pleases you in guidance going toward rectitude
And satisfies you in anxiety rising to glory

38. He has movements necessitating that he
Will ascend as high as the full moon among those lying still

39. Appointments to days within him and my desire
To God in fulfilling those appointments

40. Could I be ungrateful for blessings openly manifest?
I am not one to deny hidden righteous deeds

41. Whenever I travel the countries on my she-camels
I find my driver plunging to you and my guide

42. The best of my store is your good opinion it
Is my lifeline to which I repair and renew