1. You were disturbed by passion and infatuation,
And your disposition turned to yearning and erecting.

2. You became in the morning disconsolate for Layla, as though
A disease from Tehama had stricken you with its biting edge.

3. Indeed, the patient one, his passions stirred his sorrows,
And his groans - so tears for anguish pour forth.

4. And Layla is gentle, soft as an unweaned young she-camel,
Pampered, she who makes the forbearing fall in love, and captivates.

5. As though her figure was clad attractively
In a diaphanous robe of Zuhair, most delicate fabric.

6. And no mother of a timid, weak-hearted creature,
Of fine built, is more inclining, desirous, forward.

7. She cares for him for a while, is pleased with him
For companionship - from her boldness and vivacity.

8. With the best ornament and jewelry that adorns her
Even if she is not compliant and avoidance became prolonged.

9. And no garden, fertile, Hamawiyah,
Wherein are delicate plants of Khazami and Hubbal.

10. The rain pouring on it and sprinkling,
Overshadowing and wetting it, dripping.

11. More sweetly scented than it after slumber
When the inclining stars appear.

12. So leave mentioning Layla if she refuses you,
And if she does not approach you, so embrace.

13. Tamim came to us, their affliction in their harshness,
And those who walked of their mixed horde all became dusty.

14. With a wide plain that eyes cannot encompass its width,
For it a noisy poem that distressed and became disordered.

15. So when we saw them, their garments
On the ground in the morning were darkness and dust.

16. We set out against them with horses swift as though they were
Coughing, and forelocks of twisting when they gallop.

17. Chargers like pillars of battle overturning them
Toward death - the battle-hardened sons of war - so they were defeated.

18. They said good morning at the first opportunity,
So we said to them, "A people, Tamim, and welcome!"

19. "Do you not know that we repel our enemy
When they were insolent, united in their assembly?"

20. With a blow that spills blood - intense is its impact -
And a stab that you see from it the innards gush forth.

21. So they met with an affliction from people like
Lions of the den, truthful, they do not lie.

22. And you would not see from them but one covering his face,
And another bound, and another fleeing.

23. And there did not remain but quivering females,
And except a Nimr cattle-marker like a leather bag tossed about.

24. There returned to us from them women who were as though
With prominent collarbone and sleek body, a gazelle, nimble.

25. And we killed Amir and his mother's son,
And they were afflicted by a calamitous, painful day.

26. And there perished therein the two sons of Riyah and Habtar,
Whose corpses were torn by devouring birds of prey and wolves.

27. And Salih runs with the physique of mankind swimming,
Bald forehead, smooth-cheeked, shanks bare.

28. As though I - on the morning of fright from a roaring lion -
Abu Ashbal - thick of forearms, seasoned warrior.

29. And when I saw the horses wetting their chests,
I returned, and did not flinch when the people screamed.

30. I made Abu Al-Rahal stumble with a stab from me
From which a noble rider spills forth.

31. And I did not care if he escapes it or dies from it -
For it has deadly, gaping wounds.

32. And the chiefs of Mughirah knew already that I had returned
When the warriors were paralyzed, hindered.

33. And I routed the young men of al-Adiyy as though he were
Torrents of water from the sea, sidestepped.

34. So ask the clan of Al-Ja'ara how our affliction was
When the claimant repeatedly complained and was rewarded.