1. He passed by me with his two eyelids
A phantom far from the beloved's abode

2. A thought that knew not whence it came
Whether from left or right I know not whence

3. Between Zarud and Aban
O misery of this distance between us

4. The thread of fate is weak
It clung not to my eyelids

5. While the caravan afar from Zand
Its shoulders above two elbows

6. Overcome by slumber some fall
Delirious between two nights

7. As if the cupbearer of sleep proffered
Their eyes a drink from the head of the spring

8. None pitied me save a cheek
That embraced my bosom of the two of us

9. And an embrace that made
The roughness of the earth soft for me

10. He renewed our covenant and said good
Pleased though he spoke with hate

11. Then the darkness took wing as did
With it the wings of separation's raven

12. He came to bid farewell and morn arrived
Making him a visitor for a while

13. O rider, of the palms ahead
A haven after two deserts

14. Bear my greeting to Aban
Land it from me by the two doors

15. And whisper, ask them gently
About a gazelle, mother of two fawns

16. Traced to Qahtan through her father
While through her mother to The Two Brilliances

17. For her beauty Yemen
Inclines to the house with two meadows

18. And say to my people of Kisra's clan
Despite the enmity of two tribes

19. My birth is among you but my heart
Is in Yarub - marvel at that

20. My blood is cheap to you
O shame for my noble goal

21. Do not seek vengeance with others
For my heart is slain by my eyes

22. The chaste blamed my passion
Though passion is one of two evils

23. He thought the water of life justice
To spill the water of my cheeks

24. I said, "Relent, wretch,
O Lord of the cheek bitten in rage"

25. I swore by the disheveled pilgrims
Between mosque and place of ritual

26. By their sacrosanct state, not profane
After two consecrations

27. No base greed ever swayed my resolve
While the Lord of Heaven favors me

28. May abasement torment my face
I most abhor that shame

29. Anger dwelt with me so my abode
Became on earth a cloven house

30. I crowded my days with him so I spent
My night next to the strongest partition

31. And my glory and victory through him
Became in the changing world decayed

32. White of pure clay
Unmixed with any disgrace

33. Glory moulded it and it shone
Between tranquility and fervor

34. His uncle gave it to him
White, smooth of sides

35. All who live will weep for it
For the excellence of its ancestors

36. A glory palm with fruits
What the mouth desired and the eye

37. By God's gift the ascetics infer
Through it the House of Hussein

38. Exalted, raise your two holy hands
The peak of Thuhlan or Hunein

39. And seek rain behind them and deem slight
When they commence with wailing

40. For in them a lasting generosity
Whose era ends not

41. They pour on us red and white
A torrent of hail and thick mud

42. Each finger a branch
I tended in the hollow of two fingers

43. The finest drink of fortune from it
A lively, warbling rivulet to my palms

44. When it raced wildly in fervor
It lost both stirrups

45. Too short to be long-strided
Nor did any guide on it

46. Discern plain or marsh
Had I sent word of it on my steed

47. It would have reached in an hour or two
And say to Na'a my heart inclines to him

48. A spark between two embers
No glories were donned after you

49. Adorned with ornament
Nor did we know among them subtleties

50. Of lam, laam or ain
You were its father before it was called

51. By that name and before namers
Begotten from you, not through a mother

52. While people are of two parents
Baghdad's face was ashen

53. Shut between two eyebrows
You left and joy left it

54. Its heart between two absent ones
At night your hosts departed

55. At dawn with wagons
We spend our evenings and mornings

56. Groping between two darknesses
Return to bring life to its flank

57. Tigris flowing through it and its banks
Yearn for a realm you made prosper

58. With a yearning of two pining
He erred and you strayed so regret pierced him

59. Between remorse and tears
He repented and the slanderer repented

60. Forgiveness between two repentances
And look back at others than you

61. Alive tomorrow between two dead
And outcast, missing his cup

62. Eating his hands in rage
Protection from God is in your glory

63. Bound with a two-ply rope
It will enrich the harvest of his might

64. Praise to the Lord of the two favors
Tomorrow I will come for my dues in you

65. Cash, and time will repay my debt
Each day for poetry in you

66. Is a purpose between two deterrents
It flows though none accused it of heresy

67. Nor demanded two witnesses
Loyal to its promise to me

68. A miracle in two proofs
My praises marched among you

69. Their banners fluttering between the horizons
For you are my openings and my seal

70. With the people after between
My showers rain on you unseen

71. Near, between you and me
My rain and verse in praise of you

72. Pour forth, deterrents notwithstanding
I refused to carry on my back, proudly,

73. Any but you twain for support
I care not how the nights alternate

74. While you are between them and me