1. The gazelles are like parchments
At times clear to your eye or clouded

2. They make a new covenant of rising
As if it were of old wrinkled things

3. I did not know they were my poem
Until the breeze conversed among them

4. It seemed to me the scent of the meadows told me
Or a sojourner strayed in their pastures

5. You heard me without my companions
And revelation with my brother love is understood

6. Where are the camels in you, the wishes of longing
And those rising the life while it is unblemished?

7. Those unleashing suns for us in the darkness
And those rising at dawn while they are stars

8. They are not sought while laden with worries
My heart and no covenant to them is fulfilled

9. There remains in you for an elegist only
Standing over you and surrendering

10. And bound with two wristlets as if
The bracelets slipped off a tattooed wrist

11. We buried the dust of you with parting and passion
If only it were sealed by our lips

12. And our rising for your inhabitants is loyalty
While their setting from the meadows is lying down

13. And I had stood but was not given success
And complained, if only the complainer hears the Merciful

14. The eye is lenient then stingy in confusion
And the riders excuse and blame in turns

15. It's as if I'm above the travelers, renouncing
Sport for the mother bones of its trunk

16. No mortgage, O Lamiya, is unfastened, nor
Is the cord of obligation untied

17. It is forgotten like pouches in wealth
Behind the ribs your secret concealed

18. That he who visited me with hatred
The sheen of aloofness was dyed by my smear

19. A unjust judge rules over my tooth and how not
My enmity over him while you are against him?

20. You burdened me with his saddlebags and exiled me
So I am expelled and my tents destroyed

21. What takes you from a youth departed
From me while my mind stays with you

22. Or did you not see the gray mingled its color
In the eye a pearl for your threaded poem?

23. And on the turbaned and veiled, blameworthy
Are maternal uncles to him and paternal uncles

24. Will you be content in kinship that he
Is excluded and excluding kin is blameworthy?

25. If not for the dawn's challenging the Pleiades
The night would have finished it and it is beastly

26. Alas! A hater will not flatter
With guile nor will the blameworthy be praised

27. What decayed until you saw its drying up
How can the plant grow and it is rabble?

28. O delicacy of the two cheeks, I have not stopped
Being struck by lightning in the midst of calamities a sharer

29. You were not the first since time loaded me
I am its branch of dense foliage

30. It reaps while with me despised, not helpless
In what patience and surrender reaped

31. Or unleash your arrows O time, for
Kindness strikes and the striking is proper

32. We are laden with every feared thing
I return to you and its harm predetermined

33. Except asking the misers, for it
Became gloomy for me the way of it is grievous

34. Andrestraint from decency gave me insight
The humiliation of the covetous and his provision apportioned

35. And people are either obliging while excusing
Or infatuated with generosity and destitute

36. This one hoards and that one's wealth is short
So the fortunate and deprived are equal

37. Either you see the ready cash of eyes refuse me
And the path before me half-closed and tied

38. Stripped of the leaf of vitality, I fell
My crutch gone and in my cold the allotment

39. Cast off, hands push me away as if I
Am a waterskin whose stitching came undone

40. Between wealth and poverty, not heedless of my fortune
Nor in fortunes wise

41. For behind my scabbard is a sword not harmed
By the dishevelment of sheaths and their roughness

42. Vileness crept up on my people so I sat
Lest any rise but me when I rise

43. No effort from one who found weapons and himself
Filled and victorious, his wrath void

44. Time has tread on their beauty with its forehead
So their brows are cracked by its blows

45. They were blown away by the hands of events as if
They are blades stalked by the gusts wound up

46. I was delayed from them for misery after them
And deliverance from my life of antiquity was successful for them

47. By the most high, bent necks
And backs adorned and sculpted

48. Drop by drop dancing in ropes, their leader
Frolicking and taking its celebration responsively

49. The walk of ostriches rising with the dawn
Until stirring haunches and bodies

50. They cast mirages at Mecca like the lanterns
Disheveled while they are marked

51. They tied desires where permitted is forbidden
At Mina and where prohibitions are permitted

52. By the splendor of Banu Abdul Rahim and their glory
A lofty degree from the garden of life and a safeguard

53. The obstructers but their neighborhood is not shaken
And the milkers while their cattle are tied

54. Among them is conniving from suspicious glances
And stupidities of time are overcome

55. And if years render the morals of life wicked
They refrain from them while the noble remains noble

56. They erected signposts on the clear path
In barren times it feeds their nights and lays them down to rest

57. And they slipped away to the passersby and were certain
That in praise the gainer is the gained

58. And when calamities crowded and the breadth
For the soul of the coward and his hated soul narrowed

59. They turned over their opinions so thoughts were relieved
And from the swords, notions and resolve

60. And when you see Hussein cheapen his soul
And describe the distant known and perceived

61. With the companion he began favors and ended
So pride is a beginning sealed by it

62. Euphrates extended but did not fulfill his oath
And reached high but clouds hover

63. And he saw a peer's place for his friend
In affection and he is leader of kings

64. O you loyal to the kingdom and the brother betraying
And determined while his sword is defeated

65. No harm to him that you are orphan
Present and mother in protection inclined

66. While the eyes of pixies slept neglectfully
About him and your eye its sleep agitating

67. Until you restored his jaw from its fangs
And the lion voracious with it chewed up

68. And he came to you admitting the error of his view
He who claimed to be infallible

69. That he who cut enmity like a load
For you returned before the hunt and it is weak

70. He did not stop plunging his palms in greed
Until his claws were blunted by the clipping

71. He gored the does altogether, knowing they
Will return the two gashes and he is wrecked

72. He cut ties and came to ride his head
So he fell, wishing he were tied up

73. Evil hopes give birth to evil and wishes
Are a barren mother throughout vileness

74. The dances of a stallion enticed his glances
And confusion with its honey poisoned entered his mouth

75. He laid siege, defending against his day
If only besieging were lasting

76. He fears fleeing and does not offer himself
So dies under the sword and he is noble

77. So he chose another, his dignity debased in it
For baseness the muzzle is bloodied by it

78. The worst calamity in wars is its prisoner
The slain are excused and the defeated blamed

79. You settled him in the abode of misery, and it
Compared to what he fears of bliss is slight

80. The customs of your grandfather in your heights, though
The spear of the whole with its edge is supported

81. For them the crookedness of affairs if they are faulted in it
And for your palm the guidance and correction

82. And I see ministry is eclipsed, though
It is free and permissive and inviolable

83. It was played with by little spirits and became
Though its bliss to men is worries

84. In every day, twisted and thorny of branches sprouted in it
No shade above the ground protecting anyone in it

85. Nor under earth a pillar
Destroying, time passes its fragments

86. Beneath claws its sculpted wood
It meets him while knowing the secret of his face

87. In humiliation while he in its glory is marked
Confined in it is supremacy, aloof

88. From his image is veneration and glorification
He is content with prominent ones with a name having

89. No meaning, and the arrogance of eras is an epoch
He gives lips when he wants benevolence

90. A palm kissing them by it filled
Are you angry while you are its neighbors

91. For ambitions no beginnings for them are demarcated?
Or is all merit in time and its people

92. Even ministry neglected and wronged?
Warble, for with you O dove is its collar

93. And look, for in you are its glances O Oryx
And forgive it if you were superior to it

94. How many deficient but for them are charms
Sit for the delegation of festival while your heel

95. Not elevated and the nose of time in you a drizzle
It comes to you forcibly serving you loyally

96. In it and your glory sitting served
Wearing the garb of eternity and escorted

97. By the caravan of the train and its strung poem
The souls are seized from rarities, vanquishing

98. The command of nights is your commanded decree
O family why do I sit withered

99. While your valley is abundant, ever brimming?
Refusal of precedents disdained precedents

100. So they perished and glory in loyalty lasted
And if Qays had been content in his mother's decree

101. He would have gone straight and a piercing calamity
And I see a brother of Chosroes spend his night while his people

102. Among them the swords of victory and he is oppressed
My pact with you a time and my wound among you

103. Yusuf though the cleavage of my intimacy is stitched
So if my reed whistles and in you supports

104. The seeking of heights my side undermined
Lions protected against cubs and she-camels pulled

105. Beyond young she-camels tribulations and small hills
So why when you grew long and extended in space

106. Am I by your clouds' suckling weaned?
I seek your enclosures but am struck away from them

107. The striking of strangers and they are hot enraged
Blame from the guide though below it your affection

108. A breast over the cleavage of chasms unharmed