1. My eyes roamed between seriousness and playfulness
And shed tears between sadness and joy

2. How long will I call out to every passerby
At my beloved's tomb and cry for every absent one

3. How often do I tread in the land of yearning
Hesitating between truth and lies

4. If the houses of the neighborhood disowned me
The traces in its open plains would recognize me

5. As if I never wed in its dwellings
Nor pitched my tent or rested in it

6. Nor flirted with a lovelorn girl
In its meadows amidst that jewelry and gold

7. Showing coyness while being sociable
O, the beauty of consent in the face of anger

8. If only the nights that gifted me their cheerfulness
Did not take away the gift of pleasures if they did not last

9. Why did they make my sorrow overwhelm my joy
And put an end between success and pursuit

10. Nothing singled me out among them and made me forget them
Such is their way with every person of finesse

11. A speaker said while the camels were being loaded
"Guide the caravan seriously, not playfully"

12. To Hatim who spends and finishes provisions I said
"Attaining high positions depends on enduring difficulties"

13. What business do I have with poets who deny my nobility
While above their worth is what is under my rags

14. If I am absent from them they boast in their poems
Of the sun's absence so the stars' beauty appears