1. We concealed our love and suppressed our yearning,
So no impetuous one met what we met.

2. While you spread the secret of love
Sometimes northwards, other times southwards.

3. And when you called out with pleasure -
Why did tears not remain a guarded secret?

4. And how can we attempt to conceal it
When tears have moistened the eyelids?

5. You trusted our hearts with the secret -
Why then did you not blame the eyes for it?

6. And from what the camels uttered on the day of departure
My female companions blended with a herd of young she-camels.

7. Fair companions brought forth by the resting place,
Dazzling with brightness and fruitful with branches.

8. They stretched to us from the howdahs songs
And lowered over the sights their bashful eyes.

9. I yearn for her, and without her
The riding camels reckon the distances between us.

10. Where is Iraq compared to the two encampments -
Even if my tears make an eyelid flood?

11. By your lives, O you two guides,
Stop, and regarding what I suffer, weep.

12. For the camels saw in the valley
Covenants from the family of Saʿda in decay.

13. Their glances pour down tears
And their breaths light up the kindling.

14. The mirage relates, when it is disturbed,
Their complaints - the sea roars with ships.

15. A sigh must escape
From the chests of the moaning, lovelorn women.

16. The cups of generosity were emptied for us from a noble one,
Who rebelled against love and disobeyed the open deserts.

17. O you who blame the withholding one, what has emboldened you,
And why do you cower, weakened and submissive against the fever?

18. Where are the tents that were shaded
By a pleasurable gathering in which I delighted in intimacy?

19. It was displeasing to me to see her abode
Where doves coo their melodies.

20. If the passing clouds denied me,
I will not begrudge it my tears.

21. As if the showers from its direction
Are the gifts of the Blessed People in this year.

22. I boast to their greatest one, lofty of status,
And clearest of forehead among Quraysh.

23. When the glories of the heir to the two open plains are recounted,
His achievements, he mounted the pavilions.

24. That blessed clan, ever since it was founded,
Would never accept other than a descendant of Manaf.

25. With it they planted the tent pegs atop the high grounds,
And with it they tied taut the towering tent poles.

26. And they launched against the two sons of Yaʿrub
A war that kindles raging fires.

27. The children of Hashim camped in the valley,
In the place of wild beasts protecting their den.

28. Does the enemy desire their condition while the winds
Blow towards them violently?

29. God refused that the honored ones
Accept a meager offer or wealth of goods.

30. And in my possession are commodities
I have entrusted to withstand hard times.

31. Even if disasters shake me,
I easily cast off the surplus of my cloak.

32. Kindif has learned that I
Obtain the heights of glory purely.

33. A guest has a right, and ʿAmr of high lineage
Considers rights upon him as debts.

34. When the abodes of Hijaz shuddered,
He sufficed his people the trial of that time.

35. Before him the blood of the impostors gushed
Onto the flames of fire for the transgressors.

36. You are his son, and people dispute
Your two rests - the inconstant clouds.

37. So you have continued wrapped in the lofty robes,
Spending months and accumulating years.