1. Did you not see when on the day of Suwaqah
I wept, so Hunaydah called out: What ails you?

2. I said to her: Weeping is solace
By which one who thought there'd be no union is comforted

3. Stop, Hunaydah, and bid us farewell, for I
See the tribe has had their fill of Yemeni wine

4. May Allah who you belong to provide you company
Did you not hear the two camps calling out?

5. A beloved called and the sands between me and him
So he made me hear one calling me to that

6. My response was that I wept copiously
And ransomed one I wish I could ransom

7. When my eyes pour down, they flow
Until the streams of my weeping disappear

8. For the memory of a beloved I have not ceased since his parting
To count over the nights, night after night

9. When I depart from Hind is as though I
For a year have recalled what lodged in my heart

10. If the lost one calls me by name but does not find
A coward - my war days suffice as my defender

11. You are not one of us but you claim
To the house of Quraysh after you've grown old and bent

12. You stay with the lowliest when you feel safe
And are called on when the torrential rain pours

13. I wonder that Ibn Maragha saw
He had sheep which he gifted to me, rhyming verse!

14. Was there in my past youth
License for him to hope for my genius?

15. Did I not bet until you knew
My wager, and the reins were loosened for me?

16. No mother ever bore in her breast
One more spiteful than I in my satire

17. While you are in Wadi Kalb, not a transgressor
Nor a founder, O Ibn Maragha, a builder

18. When the nanny goat pees there she almost
Washes you away, unable to cross the meadows

19. Take the maiming of the camel hen - you
Cannot withstand my wager by your accounts

20. Through what father, O Ibn Maragha, do you seek
My wager to the furthest ends of my paternal and maternal uncles?

21. Bring me a father like my two sons of ʿIqāl
And their valley, O Ibn Maragha, as my valley

22. You will find its branch by the sky, and it has
Of glory drinking troughs it provided for my camels

23. The two elders of the house of Dārim
Built for me a structure seen lofty at the galaxy