1. Eyes wandered in their sockets
To turn the living into circles

2. So if you pass by a young woman
In a seductive state, beware

3. Lest you bring about incidents
Among them, extraordinary affairs

4. If that is so, you cannot
Accept advice and be guided

5. So if you pass a coquette
Who can't obey orders

6. Showing clear inability
And an excuse not evident

7. The most an apologizer meets
If he finds no excuse, is blame

8. O Lord of the broken-hearted
Time does not cease being unjust

9. You meet him after his slumber
As if he had stayed up all night

10. From a sleepy one I felt secure and she
Shed my blood, revolts raging

11. She gained my confidence
Among tribes and clans

12. I dwelled with her and found
The rule of her eyelids unjust to a neighbor

13. I left my heart captive in the abodes
And traveled on as a captive

14. And heard him seeking victory
So I told him there is no victor

15. If her gaze is lightning
Then who can gaze at you like lightning

16. Accustomed to bearing heavy burdens
Upon the necks of the greatest

17. I called him when he raided
The souls with continuous, heavily-armored attacks

18. And his continuous attacks
Who are you, of Banu ‘Amir?

19. I did not know anyone
Of a group who meets the clans

20. Unless their origin
Was like that, and their descendants

21. Between the lean and fat
Like the lean and the fat

22. But they are firmest
When they ride, and most penetrating in secrets

23. You see each like a downpour
With dew, and might pouring down

24. So if an obstinate one
Confronts me in speech or denial

25. Look - you will find in the praiser
Those praises and prides

26. His hand rushes with havoc
And is generous with the insignia, early

27. You see for it in every
Land, a mourner, and grateful one

28. How often has it passed the night bearing
One faded, whom love of glory emaciated

29. You imagine him turning
From its carrier's palm, readily

30. With youths whose precedents
Death returned to the raging battles

31. And the encounter held back
Their chests and remained unremitting

32. With accustomed sacrifices
Concealing the sounds of the hooves