1. My darling said when she abandoned me,
"The curtains between my gloom and sorrow."

2. I see her like a rising fog, spreading musk,
Ruining the meadows when she neglected me.

3. Your beauty in your veil, O Um Amr,
Perfect and the one with the two fishhooks adorned me.

4. If they hurried then raced swiftly,
With every fully armed one, you'd recognize my quality.

5. When I say I have a debt,
By the stab of a knight I’d pay my debt.

6. The jingling of the bridle on the head of a swift horse
Is dearer to me than for you to marry me.

7. I fear that if news descended upon us,
Galloping would find that you cannot carry me.

8. If not for my brothers and her children among them
I would have filled my right hand for her with those of Shutab.