1. Her phantom has recalled you, and with what it recalls,
And love for singing girls is an affection that kills.

2. I recalled the parting ones in the lands,
So my eyes have a singular, amazing path.

3. On a morn, his cheek pleases a noble palm,
And an eye in the veil that has for it tent walls.

4. And the day of weeping, the weeping of the tribe of Ziyad,
News arrived while their eyes were witnesses.

5. Some of us greet others openly,
As if we barely survive and do not plot.

6. And of my mind, even if they loathe me, a multitude
Who in the morning were lively or almost stretched out dead.

7. She who reveals her beauty with her cheeks,
When an ardent look travels to her, it is renewed.

8. Of the lovely women, she did not openly commit indecency
Toward a neighbor, nor did she seek to return.

9. The effect of worshippers of the past has vanished,
And grief remains for what the vein has recorded.

10. Al-Walid has begun to blame her,
And which time has doubled you, O Al-Walid?

11. So wait - I do not approve of some of my blame -
You raved from passion, and I am the chief.

12. The heart has left for that one some love
And a request that no one who desires approves.

13. Nights we would meet at the basin of my abode,
With charm that onlookers would envy.

14. So our life therein was severed,
And does life in this world have eternity?

15. And when she was brought close for the prime of youth,
The camel litter of the living collapsed.

16. Ubaydah persisted, asking you for more of her love,
After the utmost endeavor was exhausted.

17. So calm, O my liver, from the pleasing musicality -
To it, even the easiest thing is difficult.

18. I have lost love from a firm tradition,
So evil are the flowers that the flowers accompany.

19. I saw time divide every intimacy,
And no one remains for its solitude but the unique one.

20. What you possessed is soon gone, even if you are calm,
And the house of a neighbor is a far sought desire.

21. By your grandfather, O son of Qaza'ah, you have attained wealth,
Beware, the vile are to them ancestry.

22. And if you were given for your effort a starving one,
And your hands did not obtain what you seek,

23. Is it from fear of increased gifts
That you have remained stingy with those who increase?

24. I have clothed you in a garment of what I was generous with,
Cloaks that their fur coat does not part with.

25. Clothes that do not get worn down by the nights,
And do not wear out even if the skins do so.

26. I sat weaving them while the night was dark,
Embroidered, vanishing but not vanishing.

27. Your sons will inherit them, the sons of their sons,
When they perish while their material is new.

28. Thus time wears out everything,
And poetry about time does not perish.

29. Is there one with understanding of a drink for a departing one,
Who attains with his generosity what does not give?

30. I have poured upon the son of Qaza'ah from my torment
Harm that coldness does not soothe.

31. Upon the weak he is a lion when he pounces
And his threat keeps him awake at night.

32. Our lord is harsh on the servant girls -
On a neck in chains, so his dirham is fetters.

33. He imagines stinginess an obligation upon him
So he freezes like what iron has frozen.

34. Thus his cowardice hatched that I cannot suffice,
But soon the melody will reach him.

35. He has a face that hides from intimates
And a palm that delegations do not hope for.

36. He undertakes with the little to the lowness
And sitting keeps him from glory.

37. Ignorant of the eye from seeking lofty things,
And in evil deeds a rebel devil.

38. Abu Yahya, why will you be tomorrow
You have grown old and in you generosity is blocked.

39. So if you are lacking in every good,
Why for you in our fellowship any increase?

40. The generous will shun you, so be vile,
For you to the ignoble are a loving companion.