1. أشتهي أَنْ أرى قُدُوري تَفُورُ

    وكؤوسي على النَّدامى تَدُور

    I long to see my pots boiling,

    and my cups passing round among the boon companions;

  2. وأرى مجلسي وقد حَجَزَ الريحا

    نَ ما بينَ أهلِهِ والبَخُور

    and see my hall, with sweet basil enclosed

    between its guests and the incense;

  3. وتداعتْ فيه القيانُ كما قد

    يتداعى على الغُصونِ الطيورُ

    and the singing girls call to one another there, as

    birds may call to one another upon the branches;

  4. وأرانا وقد مشى السكرُ في الأر

    ؤسِ منَّا وفي القلوبِ السُّرور

    and see us, drunkenness creeping into our

    heads, and delight into our hearts.

  5. وَخَلَصْنَا فما نُفَكِّرُ إِلاّ

    في حبيبٍ نزورُهُ ويزور

    And, alone together, we think of nothing but

    a beloved whom we visit and who visits us.

  6. ذاك أمري وعفةٌ وحياءٌ

    قَدَّمَتْني أو أخَّرَتْني أُمور

    That is my way, with chastity and modesty,

    whether circumstances advance me or set me back.

  7. خُلُقٌ واسعٌ وشعرٌ كما شئ

    تَ وعيشٌ خَفْضٌ وربٌ غفور

    A generous nature, and poetry as you

    wish; a life of ease, and a forgiving Lord;

  8. وَجِوارٌ في هاشمٍ رَهِبَ الده

    رُ مكاني منه فليسَ يجور

    and protection with Hashim: Time fears

    my standing with him, and so does not wrong me.

  9. بين ساداتِنا من العَقَبيّ

    ينَ الأولى همُ شُموسُنا والبدور

    Among our lords of the Aqabiyyin,

    who are our suns and full moons,

  10. نازلٌ من ديارهم منزلاً طا

    رَ بهِ في ذُرى الهواءِ الطُّور

    I lodge among their homes, in a dwelling with which

    the Mount has flown into the heights of the air.

  11. فَرَعَ السُّورَ في ارتقاءِ المراقي

    فعلى السور من مراقيه سور

    It overtops the rampart as its stairways rise,

    so above the rampart its stairways form another rampart.

  12. فكأَني ابتنيتُ في النَّسْرِ بيتاً

    أو سَمَتْ بي إلى السماءِ النسور

    So it is as though I had built a house in the Eagle,

    or eagles had borne me aloft into the sky.

  13. مجلسٌ تلتقي الجبالُ الرواسي

    والبراري قُدَّامَهُ والبحور

    A hall before which the firmly rooted mountains gather,

    along with the wildernesses and seas.

  14. ذا قويقٌ وجوشنٌ قابَ قَوْسَيْ

    نِ وهذي الرُّبى وهذي القصور

    Here is Quwayq, and Jawshan is two bow-lengths away;

    and here are the hills, and here the palaces.