1. يا صاحبَ الحسن البديعِ تركْتني

    يعقوبَ جانسَ ضرّه أيُّوبا

    O possessor of wondrous beauty, you have left me

    a Jacob whose suffering matched Job's.

  2. شعري بحسنك لا يزالُ مشبباً

    يصف الأسى وبنارِه مشبوبا

    My poetry never ceases to sing of your beauty,

    describing sorrow, and set ablaze by its fire.

  3. لولا امْتداح محبِّ دينِ الله ما

    فارقت أغزال المديح وُثوبا

    Were it not for praising the Lover of God's Faith, I would not

    have leapt away from the love lyrics of praise.

  4. يا من أحبَّته العلى وأحبَّها

    أنت المحِبُّ أو المحَبُّ وجوبا

    O you whom lofty glory loved, and who loved it,

    you are the lover, or the beloved, of necessity.

  5. لك راحةٌ تعبَ الثراءُ بعتبها

    ما أكرم المتعوبَ والمعتُوبا

    You have a palm that wealth has grown weary of reproaching;

    how generous the wearied and the reproached!

  6. نَصبٌ خفضت العيش فيه فحبَّذا

    تصريفك المخفوضَ والمنصُوبا

    A toil in which you eased life—how excellent

    your inflection of the genitive and the accusative!

  7. عشْ للفضائلِ والهباتِ حبِيبها الطَّ

    اءِيّ أو طائيّها المحبوبا

    Live for virtues and gifts, their Ḥabīb al-Ṭā—

    —ʾī, or their beloved Ṭāʾī.