1. Did our gathering last night choose to depart or stay?
Asking, by your life, which of those did it prefer?

2. And I feared their intention was to suddenly leave,
As parted lovers oft repeated their bitterness.

3. The messenger said, tears flowing,
So I stopped him, letting those tears flow freely.

4. "Travel secretly, none shall hinder you,
Even if mountains collapsed onto his mount."

5. Needing help, the vigor of youth led him
To that which fate's caprice made congruous.

6. She appeared, looking from her litter as though
She meant us harm by so revealing herself.

7. Charms peeked out from a blooming branch,
Recalling lodgings to the settled abodes.

8. She shone one evening in Mecca's valley, her face
Lighting the curtains with its radiance.

9. Like the sun, pleasing those who saw her, and adorned
By pride enough when she wished to boast.

10. Every desolate land was watered by your face,
And by your like we seek rains.

11. If only the insightful Thaqifite saw her forehead
And the pristine clarity of her cheeks, he'd burn!

12. I see your beauty above all beauties,
Your beautiful face captures all eyes.

13. I saw you leaving, redolent with perfume,
Swaying in the saddle, a delightful sight.

14. Poised on the camel, perfect in creation,
Like crafted silverwork, fragrant and pure.

15. Comforting one laid low with a graceful initiative -
It would illuminate deepest gloom.

16. You intoxicated him with amber, cloves,
And ginger mixed into a healing potion.

17. Like honey robbed by an emir from the sellers,
Or a draft of chilled Nabrid in tumblers.

18. It flows over your smiling lips whenever
You take a sip, though you know not its danger.

19. Quenching thirst when the thirsty beholds it -
Sweetly intoxicating the impassioned kisser.

20. He who wears it in winter will succeed
More graciously than any fur cloak.

21. Show kindness to one whose mind you've addled,
Who hasn't fulfilled his promise from you.

22. When I pine, I mark my heart with her absence,
And find it confused and distraught.

23. My eyes well up when I pine for her,
While my heart rages at remembering her anger.

24. Thus do I rave, for as long as I live, O youths!
And by it in the morn I gray my hair.

25. Who can maintain ties if you sever our bonds?
Or confide in us your secrets after you?

26. Alas for Ku'ayqian and his people -
With those two sorrows his tomb overflowed.