أَتَعرِفُ رَسماً دارِساً قَد تَغَيَّرا

بِذَروَةَ أَقوى بَعدَ لَيلى وَأَقفَرا

Do you know of a drawing that has changed

At the peak of stronger after Layla and deserted

كَما خَطَّ عِبرانِيَّةً بِيَمينِهِ

بِتَيماءَ حَبرٌ ثُمَّ عَرَّضَ أَسطُرا

As the Hebrew wrote with his right

In Tayma ink, then lined up verses

أَقولُ وَقَد شَدَّت بِرَحلِيَ ناقَتي

وَنَهنَهتُ دَمعَ العَينِ أَن يَتَحَدَّرا

I say, and my she-camel has tightened my luggage

And I suppressed the tear of the eye so as not to flow

عَلى أَمِّ بَيضاءَ السَلامُ مُضاعَفاً

عَديدَ الحَصى ما بَينَ حِمصَ وَشَيزَرا

On Umm Bayda, peace be multiplied

As many pebbles between Homs and Shaizar

وَقُلتُ لَها يا أُمَّ بَيضاءَ إِنَّهُ

كَذَلِكَ بَينا يُعرَفُ المَرءُ أُنكِرا

And I said to her, O Umm Bayda, that’s how

It is recognized between people denied

فَقَولُ اِبنَتي أَصبَحتَ شَيخاً وَمَن أَكُن

لَهُ لِدَةً يُصبِح مِنَ الشَيبِ أَوجَرا

So my daughter said you have become an old man and whoever

I was gentle to, becomes from white hair injurer

كَأَنَّ الشَبابَ كانَ رَوحَةَ راكِبٍ

قَضى أَرَباً مِن أَهلِ سُقفٍ لِغَضوَرا

It was as if youth was a rider’s trip

Who spent four from the people of houses to Ghadour

لَقَومٌ تَصابَبتُ المَعيشَةَ بَعدَهُم

أَعَزُّ عَلَيَّ مِن عِفاءٍ تَغَيَّرا

A people whom livelihood was good after them

Dearer to me than high-bred camels that changed

تَذَكَّرتُ لَمّا أَثقَلَ الدَينُ كاهِلي

وَصانَ يَزيدٌ مالَهُ وَتَعَذَّرا

I remembered when debt burdened my shoulder

And Yazeed hoarded his money and was stern

رِجالاً مَضَوا مِنّي فَلَستُ مُقايِضاً

بِهِم أَبَداً مِن سائِرِ الناسِ مَعشَرا

Men who passed from me, so I do not substitute

Them ever with the rest of the people's group

وَلَمّا رَأَيتُ الأَمرَ عَرشَ هَوِيَّةٍ

تَسَلَّيتُ حاجاتِ الفُؤادِ بِشَمَّرا

And when I saw the matter a passionate abyss

I consoled the heart's needs by being resolute

فَقَرَّبتُ مُبراةً تَخالُ ضُلوعَها

مِنَ الماسِخِيّاتِ القِسِيَّ المُؤَتَّرا

So I brought a she-camel that ribs seem

Of the thick-legged, tough, well-knitted

جُمالِيَّةٌ لَو يُجعَلُ السَيفُ عَرضَها

عَلى حَدِّهِ لَاِستَكبَرَت أَن تَضَوَّرا

A beautiful white that if a sword is put on its edge

It would be too proud to be bent

وَلا عَيبَ في مَكروهِها غَيرَ أَنَّهُ

تَبَدَّلَ جَوناً بَعدَ ما كانَ أَزهَرا

And no fault in her unpleasantness except

Her vigor has changed after it blossomed

كَأَنَّ ذِراعَيها ذِراعا مُدِلَّةٍ

بُعَيدَ السِبابِ حاوَلَت أَن تَعَذَّرا

It is as if her forelegs are hanging forelegs

Far from the toes trying to withdraw

مُمَجَّدَةِ الأَعراقِ قالَ اِبنُ ضَرَّةٍ

عَلَيها كَلاماً جارَ فيهِ وَأَهجَرا

Magnificent lineage, Ibn Darras said about her

Words in which he blamed and estranged

تَقولُ لَها جاراتُها إِذ أَتَينَها

يَحِقُّ لِلَيلى أَن تُعانَ وَتُنصَرا

Her neighbors tell her when they come to her

It is right for Layla to be aided and supported

يَغَرنَ لِمِبهاجٍ أَزالَت حَليلَها

غَمامَةُ صَيفٍ ماؤُها غَيرُ أَكدَرا

It makes them jealous for a bride whose husband

A summer cloud its water no more turbid

مِنَ البيضِ أَعطافاً إِذا اِتَّصَلَت دَعَت

فِراسَ بنَ غَنمٍ أَو لَقيطَ بنَ يَعمُرا

Of white sides, if connected, they invite

Firas ibn Ghanam or Laqeet ibn Ya’mour

بِها شَرَقٌ مِن زَعفَرانٍ وَعَنبَرٍ

أَطارَت مِنَ الحُسنِ الرِداءَ المُحَبَّرا

On it an east of saffron and amber

Flew from beauty the embroidered cloak

تَقولُ وَقَد بَلَّ الدُموعُ خِمارَها

أَبى عِفَّتي وَمَنصِبي أَن أُعَيَّرا

She says and tears have soaked her veil

My chastity and position refused to be criticized

كَأَنَّ اِبنَ آوى موثَقٌ تَحتَ غَرضِها

إِذا هُوَ لَم يَكلِم بِنابَيهِ ظَفَّرا

It is as if Ibn Awya tied under it

When he did not speak with his canine teeth whitened

كَأَنَّ بِذِفراها مَناديلَ قارَفَت

أَكُفَّ رِجالٍ يَعصِرونَ الصَنَوبَرا

It is as if with her braids are handkerchiefs

That squeeze men’s hands extracting pine

وَتَقسِمُ طَرفَ العَينِ شَطراً أَمامَها

وَشَطراً تَراهُ خِشيَةَ السَوطِ أَخزَرا

And she divides the eye’s glance in two in front of her

And half she sees fearing the green whip

لَها مَنسِمٌ مِثلُ المَحارَةِ خُفُّهُ

كَأَنَّ الحَصى مِن خَلفِهِ خَذفُ أَعسَرا

It has horseshoe like an oyster its back

As if pebbles from behind it were thrown by a left-handed

إِذا وَرَدَت ماءً هُدوءاً جِمامُهُ

أَصاتَ سَديساها بِهِ فَتَشَوَّرا

If she comes to still water, its brisket

Screeches its cheekbones with it and it became dusty

وَقَد أَنعَلَتها الشَمسُ نَعلاً كَأَنَّهُ

قَلوصُ نَعامٍ زِفُّها قَد تَمَوَّرا

And the sun has shod it with a shoe that is like

An ostrich egg, its dragging has become speckled

سَرَت مِن أَعالي رَحرَحانَ فَأَصبَحَت

بِفَيدٍ وَباقي لَيلِها ما تَحَسَّرا

It walked from the tops of Raḥrḥan so it became

In Fayd while the rest of its night what it regretted

إِذا قَطَعَت قُفّاً كُمَيتاً بَدا لَها

سَماوَةُ قُفٍّ بَينَ وَردٍ وَأَشقَرا

If it passes a short Komaytah hill appears to it

The block of a hill between roses and blond

وَراحَت رَواحاً مِن زَرودَ فَنازَعَت

زُبالَةَ جِلباباً مِنَ اللَيلِ أَخضَرا

And it went strolling from Zarwad so it disputed

With gloom a garment from the night green

فَأَضحَت بِصَحراءِ البُسَيطَةِ عاصِفاً

تُوَلّي الحَصى سُمرَ العُجاياتِ مُجمَرا

So it became in the desert of Buseetah storming

Turning the pebbles the embers of snakes flaming

وَكادَت عَلى ذاتِ التَنانيرِ تَرتَمي

بِها القورُ مِن حادٍ حَدا ثُمَّ بَربَرا

And it almost fell on Zu-taneer

The aoudads from a cliff, then Berber

وَأَضحَت عَلى ماءِ العُذَيبِ وَعَينُها

كَوَقبِ الصَفا جِلسِيُّها قَد تَغَوَّرا

And it became over Uthayb water and its eye is

Like the sitting place of As-Safa having holes

فَلَمّا دَنَت لِلبَطنِ عاجَت جِرانَها

إِلى حارِكٍ يَنمي بِهِ غَيرُ أَدبَرا

So when it approached the abdomen, it dodged

To a kindler with which other kindles

وَقَد أَلبَسَت أَعلى البُرَيدَينِ غُرَّةً

مِنَ الشَمسِ إِلباسَ الفَتاةِ الحَزَوَّرا

And it dressed the higher Buraydan with a coating

From the sun a wearing like a patched girl

وَأَعرَضَ مِن خَفّانَ أُجمٌ يَزينُهُ

شَماريخُ باها بانِياهُ المُشَقَّرا

And a camel turned away from Khefan well decorated

Shamarikh and Bahaniah the peeled

فَرَوَّحَها الرَجافَ خَوصاءَ تَحتَذي

عَلى اليَمِّ بارِيَّ العِراقِ المُضَفَّرا

So the cold north wind fanned it Khowsa’a under

On the Yam Balad Iraq the feathered

تَحِنُّ عَلى شَطِّ الفُراتِ وَقَد بَدا

سُهَيلٌ لَها مِن دونِهِ سَروُ حِميَرا

Yearning over the shore of the Euphrates and has appeared

To it from besides it, Suhail a red deer

فَفاءَت إِلى قَومٍ تُريحُ رِعاؤُهُم

عَلَيها اِبنَ عِرسٍ وَالإِوَزَّ المُكَفَّرا

So it came to a people whose grazing relieves

Ibn Ir’s and the coated hyrax

إِذا ناهَبَت وُردَ البَراذينِ حَظَّها

مِنَ القَتِّ لَم يُنظِرنَها أَن تَحَدَّرا

When attacking the flowers of baradhine its share

Of fighting, it did not wait for it to descend

كَأَنَّ عَلى أَنيابِها حينَ يَنتَحي

صِياحَ الدَجاجِ غُدوَةً حينَ بَشَّرا

It is as if on its fangs when it pulls away

The roosters' screams in the morning when they rejoiced

إِذا اِرتَدَفاها بَعدَ طولِ هِبابِها

أَبَسّا بِها مِن خَشيَةٍ ثُمَّ قَرقَرا

If after long confusion, it rides it back

They clothe it in fear, then it bubbled

وَقَد لَبِسَت عِندَ الإِلَهَةِ ساطِعاً

مِنَ الفَجرِ لَمّا صاحَ بِاللَيلِ بَقَّرا

And it had worn next to Al-Ilahah bright

From dawn when it shouted to the night punctured

فَلَمّا تَدَلَّت مِن أُجارِدَ أَرقَلَت

وَجاءَت بِماءٍ كَالعَنِيَّةِ أَصفَرا

So when it hangs from Ojarid, it slipped

And came with water like the urine, yellow

فَكُلُّ بَعيرٍ أَحسَنَ الناسُ نَعتَهُ

وَآخَرَ لَم يُنعَت فِداءٌ لِضَمزَرا

So every camel, the best people described it

And the last was not described, redeem to Damzar