1. Ghadah's beauty is witnessed by admirers
Her radiance outshines the full moons

2. Her noble fathers are from Dhirar's progeny
Honored by the name of their Muhammad

3. And her mother is from Wail, so when joined
Her ancestry includes Bastaam and Marthad

4. She surpasses women in her elegance
As tomorrow surpasses today in generosity

5. She mounts none but high-bred, swift camels
Her hands milk only productive she-camels

6. If she travels, shyness excuses me
If she gazes, the doe-eyed beauties envy her

7. Her sight makes the bashful lose composure
And modesty clothes them in shyness

8. Or if the singers act indecently
Dignity makes her composed and seated

9. In my heart she made her dwelling
Taking the lightning for her lamp

10. Where the rising breeze finds her
Her brazier fanned by the cool morning breeze

11. O Najd, no maiden traveled you
More generous, more hospitable than her

12. Until your hill-tops are neighbored
By unstirred, late-coming camel herds

13. Since I left you, sleeplessness keeps my eyes open
Remembering nights when she lay asleep

14. When I see the traveling caravans departing
My heart leaves with them to find her

15. Umm Khishf lost her son and set out
Seeking him desperately, and he seeks her

16. She met him slain in Mahlikah
Among snakes writhing around his corpse

17. She approached in awe and alarm
Fear keeping her from nearing him

18. Gasping out of her ribs a breath
That bloodied and tore her collar

19. That is like me, when I visited her abode
And found it desolate, where is its household?

20. Between my ribs is an anguish that burns
With only tears to extinguish its embers