1. Do you shun a singing girl or blame her?
Or has the rope of love for her unraveled?

2. Or has patience proved better, for surely a man
Will benefit from his knowledge if he has knowledge,

3. Just as a mature man whom you will find
Who has investigated then attained or walked ahead.

4. He disobeyed thesolicitous ones to his perdition
And suspected every sincere adviser to him.

5. That was none but youthfulness
And the punishment of a sinful man.

6. And a glance of an eye at a simpleton
She who pitched her tent in the wilderness of Zum.

7. And her smile apart from the dispersal of the people,
Without being chaste or broken up.

8. So there appeared in my chest a split, for her
Like the split of a glass vessel not to be repaired.

9. How then were her suitors when she came
And the nearest place of visitation for her was to be had?

10. And Sa'haba went around her synagogue
And brought her out with a seal upon her.

11. And the wind confronted her in her abasement,
And prayed over her abasement and withdrew.

12. I took her without being deterred
From drinking or denying what was known.

13. And she was as white as the sword that gives reward,
It would not be generous or raid if it missed.

14. I was once a guest of his
Out of generosity in his wealth, so I will judge.

15. And Yahma sings, her gardens
Whose springs are turbulent and blocked up.

16. I cut across with swift, tall,
High-stepping steeds like the Phoenician ships.

17. Wrathful from the whip, decked out
When the riding-camels donned the shackles.

18. Silent as the silence of deserted encampments
When they depart and the remainder of the herd is silent.

19. It relieves a man of his anxiety
And upon it is healed the sick heart.

20. To the man Qais I make the journey long
And take from every district precaution.

21. And how many groups below your abode
Are foolish lads, hostile ruffians.

22. When I greet they do not return
My greeting, and they are not deaf.

23. And the darkness of night upon sly
Women, their heat blazes.

24. And indeed your raids from Hadhramaut
Came to me while before me are Tehama and stoning.

25. Your riding-camel troop on enemy land
And their trunks like the mumbled speech of the non-Arabs.

26. And their army look each morning
For war, so today is not a day to shrink from battle.

27. Standing for what was of success
While they are fasting, their pot boiling.

28. So you stirred them and your stirring among them
Did not settle, as the flood circulated the rolling pebbles.

29. You do not want, for whom you exerted yourself,
As is said about the live coal, "It kindled the dirham."

30. She was like a pregnant woman the morning after
Conception her delivery was not known.

31. He rises over the grief among his people
So he pardons when he wills or avenges.

32. The brother of war, not a submissive weakling,
Nor wearing the sandals of one whose bowels gurgle.

33. Nor is Mu'zibd from the estuary of the Euphrates
A deep pool whose diving-birds collide.

34. It upturns the boat with oars
Its frame has almost shattered.

35. Its sailor huddles in its middle
Fearfully like its ribbing constricting him.

36. More generous than him with what he has
When their heavens do not frown.

37. He is the Giver of the chosen hundred
Like palm trees which the truncated circulates.

38. And every pile like the trunk of a cutting
That runs upon sublime authorities.

39. Its columns like the tracks of the oryx
Their tips touching the ground silently.

40. It hunts the lote-trees and their gum and
Their brambles before they are bathed.

41. And a day when I see the Pleiades
Turn away like scattered pearls.

42. It hangs low swiftly as if the Pleiades
A blue one followed it, flesh.

43. For indeed Mu'awiyah the noblest of the noble
Long bones, lofty ambitions.

44. When will you leave them to battle?
Horses will come to you with other than thick necks.

45. When they sit in the evening
Visions of 'Aad and their hands suppled.

46. And 'Awra came so I answered her
With an ugly, denying the tie of relation.

47. With denial for her a surah
Which if sent she does not avenge herself.

48. She says, "My daughter, when the departure was certain,
Do you see us as equal, and who will be bereft?"

49. "Our father, so do not toss away from us
For we are in prosperity when you do not toss."

50. "And O father, do not cease to be with us
For we fear that you will be cut off."

51. "Do you see us when the lands have pretended you dead,
We are hidden, and the womb-relations cut off from us."

52. "Did you fear for me misfortune in the circumambulation,
And how many circumambulators calamity has not tossed?"

53. "And indeed I have gone around the land its horizons
'Oman, then Himyar, then Jerusalem."

54. "I came to the Negus in his land
And the land of Nabataea and the land of the non-Arabs."

55. "Then Najran, then the villages of Kinda,
Then which purpose did it have I did not toss about for?"

56. "And after that to Hadhramaut
So I fulfilled my concern, and time I was anxious."

57. "Do you not see Hadhra when its inhabitants
With bliss - and does one provided for last?"

58. "Shahpur the Jund stayed in it two years
Striding about in it, steps treading."

59. "So his Lord did not increase him in strength
And the like of his neighbor did not endure."

60. "So when his Lord saw his deed
He came upon him suddenly and did not avenge."

61. "And he had called his comrades with a call
Come now to your matter, it is decided."

62. "So die honorable by your swords
And for death one with daring gulps it down."

63. "And for death there is better for one who attains it
When the man - his nation does not last."

64. "So in that is an example for one who would die with dignity
And Ma'rib whose dam the torrent split."

65. "Its stones built by them the villages
When their water came it did not flow gently."

66. "So it watered the crops and its grapes
With ample water when it was divided."

67. "So they lived in bliss
Then a torrent coursed through it eroding."

68. "So the villages and its canals flew off
In Yahma in which is a mirage that promises."

69. "So they flew quickly, and they could not estimate
From it enough for a weaned child to drink."