1. This heart recalled in longing a remembrance
It recalled a yearning it doesn't forget any time

2. It recalled Zamiyya whom it doesn't forget
Even if the least of its association with her was ten years

3. No spindle in the valley, the valley of Tihama
Grazes lambs from its precipices, fresh

4. From twisted rain the tears graze
To the chin of a child it imagines idle

5. It attained at the top of passion, crazed
So it didn't hold back until they thought it mad

6. Better than Zamiyya the day I met her
No cares went away, their clouds sparse

7. And how many turns in Sraima are below her
And enemies of a people who vow my blood a vow

8. When they threaten me at Zamiyya it saddened her
And my threat, and she said don't say to him estrangement

9. Ziyad called me for a gift but I wasn't
For his closest what a man of repute brought, and ample

10. And in Ziyad's presence if they want their gift
Many men who see in them poverty

11. Sitting at the doors seekers of need
Support from needs or an unspoiled need

12. So when I feared that his gift would be
Rushing darkness or a descending brown

13. I fled to a craft that harmed its builder
The nights' wakefulness and its roaming the barren land

14. It breathes from an expansive cavity in the chest
When it extends its stubbled jaws