1. وقافية منك أوضاحها

    ولكن لفظي فيها لمع

    And a poem whose bright adornments come from you,

    yet my words gleam within it:

  2. عراقية اللفظ شامية ال

    محاسن علوية المصطنع

    Iraqi in diction, Syrian in its

    beauties, Alid in its patronage.

  3. فيا واحد المجد صنها فمن

    سوى واحد الشعر ما تستمع

    So, peerless in glory, preserve it, for from

    none but the peerless poet do you hear.

  4. مدحتك حتى بلغت المشيب

    وكنت بباك دون اليفع

    I have praised you until my hair turned gray,

    and I was at your gate before adolescence.