1. مذ صدَّ عنّي وتجافاني

    واصلت العبرة أَجفاني

    Since he turned away from me and shunned me,

    tears have kept company with my eyelids.

  2. ريم إذا رمَت سلوا له

    طاوعني الشوق وعاصاني

    A gazelle—whenever I sought to forget him,

    longing obeyed me and disobeyed me.

  3. بدر دجى تحسب في مرطه

    إذا انثنى خوطا من البان

    A moon in the darkness; in his mantle you would think him,

    when he bends, a slender shoot of the ben tree.

  4. بالأرحِ لفائح من نشره

    يعرف عرف المسك والبان

    By the wafting fragrance of his scent,

    the perfume of musk and ben is known.

  5. لهفي على فيه العقيق الذي

    فيه من اللؤلؤ سمطان

    My yearning for his agate mouth, which

    holds two strands of pearls!

  6. كم أكتم الوجد عليه وكم

    يذيعه شأني إلى الشاني

    How often I conceal my passion for him, and how often

    my plight discloses it to the hater!

  7. ومغرب في الحسن ما ضره

    لو شفع الحسن بإحسانِ

    And one wondrous in beauty—what harm would it do him

    if he paired beauty with kindness?

  8. في خده روضة حزن إذا

    نظرتها تزداد أحزاني

    On his cheek is an upland garden; when

    I look at it, my sorrows grow.

  9. شوك الفتى يمنع أن نجتني

    يا للحظ يوما وردها القاني

    The youth's thorns keep us from plucking—

    alas for fortune!—its crimson roses, even for a day.

  10. يا عاذلي إن كنت لي ناصحاً

    فخلني خلاً لأشجاني

    O my reproacher, if you sincerely wish me well,

    then leave me a companion to my sorrows.

  11. أبكي من الهجر إلى ضاحك

    وأسهر الليل لو سنان

    I weep from estrangement to one who laughs,

    and stay awake through the night for a drowsy one.

  12. فليس لي في الوجد ثان ولا

    لابن علي عن ندى ثاني

    For I have no equal in passion, nor

    has Ibn Ali anyone to turn him from bounty.

  13. ذي السؤدد النائي على المبتغي

    مناله والكرم الداني

    His eminence lies beyond anyone seeking

    to attain it, while his generosity is near.

  14. ذاك الذي أشكره دائما

    في حالتي سري وإعلاني

    He is the one I thank always,

    both in private and in public,

  15. شكر رياض الحزن معهودة

    لمرجحن الردق حنّانِ

    as familiar upland gardens give thanks

    to a cloud laden with rain and rumbling.

  16. قلت لمنضي العيسى من بازل

    عود ومن هوجاء مذعان

    I said to the man exhausting pale camels, whether mature

    old males or impetuous, obedient females,

  17. يفلي ا لفلا وخدا عسى أن يرى

    إنسانه صورة إنسانِ

    combing the wilderness at a brisk trot, hoping that

    his eye's pupil might see a human form:

  18. لا تعد مجد الدين فهو امرؤ

    رحيب أوطان وأعطانِ

    Do not pass Majd al-Din, for he is a man

    of spacious dwellings and camel watering-grounds.

  19. مرحب بالوفد مستبشر

    منا بزوار وضيفانِ

    Welcoming delegations, he rejoices

    in visitors and guests from among us.

  20. ليس عن المعروف المنتهي

    ولا عن الإحسان بالواني

    He never desists from good deeds,

    nor slackens in kindness.

  21. له ثمار دانيات الجنى

    جودا وعفو يسع الجاني

    His are fruits whose harvest is within easy reach,

    in bounty, and a pardon that embraces the wrongdoer.

  22. خرق يرى ذا منن جمّة

    ولا يرى يوما بمنانِ

    A generous man, seen bestowing many favors,

    yet never seen reminding others of them.

  23. حساب من يعلم إن الثنا

    باق وما يذخره فانِ

    He reckons like one who knows that praise

    endures, while what he hoards will perish.

  24. فيا أبا الفضل الذي لم يزل

    يعني بفك الموثق العاني

    O Abu al-Fadl, who has never ceased

    to care for freeing the fettered captive,

  25. خففت أثقالي بجدوى يد

    سماعها ثقل ميزاني

    you lightened my burdens with the bounty of a hand

    hearing of which has made my scales heavy.

  26. فدمت في سلم وحرب معا

    تدعى بمطعام ومطعانِ

    May you ever, in peace and war alike,

    be called a lavish feeder and a fierce spearman.

  27. يا بدر جود كفه مزنة

    وخلقه زهرة بستانِ

    O moon of bounty, whose palm is a raincloud,

    and whose character is a garden's blossom;

  28. وواحدا في المجد مسعاته

    ثالثةالنسر وكيوانِ

    and O peerless one in glory, whose striving stands

    as a third beside the Eagle and Saturn.

  29. نداك والغيث سواء كما

    عزمك والمنصل سيّانِ

    Your bounty and the rain are alike, just as

    your resolve and the sword are equals.

  30. يا فرحة العائد والمجتدي

    وترحة الحاسد والشاني

    O joy of the visitor and the bounty-seeker,

    and sorrow of the envious and the hateful;

  31. أصبحت حسانك حقا لما

    توليه من بر وإحسانِ

    I have truly become your Hassan, because of what

    you bestow of goodness and kindness.

  32. فدمت في إخلاق عمر المدى

    والدهر ماكر الجديدانِ

    May you endure, wearing out the lifespan of eternity

    and time, so long as night and day recur.