1. وَقَصائِدٍ مِثلِ الرِّياضِ أَضَعتُها

    في باخِلٍ ضاعَت بِهِ الأَحسابُ

    And poems like gardens I squandered

    on a miser in whom ancestral honor was lost.

  2. فَإِذا تَناشَدَها الرُّواةُ وَأَبصَروا ال

    مَمدوحَ قالوا ساحِرٌ كَذَّابُ

    So when the reciters recite them to one another and see the

    one praised, they say, “A sorcerer, a liar!”