1. Love was killed, O nights of passion
So bid the hearts and livers farewell

2. A brain burning with love, yet
A thousand hearts boil with malice

3. And breasts like fire covered over
With the blackness of hypocrisy like ashes

4. And life's worries create for the heart
What affliction for he who lacks a heart

5. We did not trust time except as
The ascetic trusts the devil of devils

6. Each day cries out to the people in a voice
Like the ticking of clocks at the appointment

7. Where is one who trusts the wastelands and the people
With their kinds as the wastelands' yield

8. Whom you leave until he reaches puberty
While the Lord of the orchard lies in wait

9. And a victim is one who was alive in the thickets
Taken in charge by the eyes of predators

10. People are only honored by people
Even if their matter is vanishing

11. If the mention of those who built and presided
Has remained fixed with the tent pegs

12. And when a man secretly entrusts the earth
The hand of cessation uncovers his secret

13. If you wish to see your talk after
Death, then look to the talk of servants

14. How many lessons the days show us
As if the days are prepared

15. And I see a lesson folded in it
Like the folding of a million in numbers

16. In a king dressed in majesty yesterday
Today lying useless on the boughs

17. And spent his life one feast day so when
He died, his days mourned him in mourning

18. And of the worries is that you see the tears
Of death without tears of birth

19. Troubled is the unjust when he
Proceeds among the people in the ways of tyranny

20. The selves of people are swords
That if stirred, pour from the sheaths

21. Where is he who was smiles in the battlefields
And today is the morsel of the envious

22. Where is he who was hope for the country
And today a lesson in the countries

23. They inscribed his mention on the pages of history
In black ink for his evil deed

24. And showed that corruption, though it
May last, its consequences are corrupting

25. He did not ignore what is right, but
Love blinded him from the path of righteousness

26. And the most misguided passion is the passion of
Souls desiring the beauty of bodies

27. Verily the crown has a goddess that does not
Adorn the crown but the rise of progeny

28. Not that which is the empty oyster
Inauspiciously for the diver's rising

29. They blamed him for her so he was sick
Mocking the doctor and visitors

30. And if sin has an excuse
What excuse for a persistent sinner

31. Estrange it from hearts but he was not
Pleased, and the intimacy of foes is difficult

32. He threw a live coal into the fire, so when
It burned, it seized none but the kindlers

33. The king is not driven by his passion
Like the driving of steeds

34. It ripened him with love until when
He ripened, the enemies fed him

35. And it showed the eyes that the shine of
Destiny has been clouded by passion with blackness

36. Eyes from which modesty has been stripped
Emboldening all the talk of soldiers

37. Would that when she did not guide him to glory
She had not handed over the reins to pimps

38. Would that when she kept him up at night over her
She had not rewarded him with this slumber

39. She killed him with her betrayal and abandoned him
And I see betrayal, like passion, gathering

40. What hands have replaced that pearl
With the love of lead over the pits

41. Or were the stars afraid to fall down
Out of jealousy over the steeds

42. What is it with those gazes when they
Are grieving, other than grieving in the enemy

43. Glances that perhaps have influenced
Even the body of inanimate objects

44. They killed the gazelle of the palaces, but
The killers of hunters are alive, valley

45. They reckoned it a rat while they
Were the cats of the abode, so they did not eat it before hunting

46. And thus do thieves, when
They see the capital over the pillow

47. I do not see this valor
Except as folly from the roughness of kidneys

48. They babbled stupidly in the spilt blood and what
Is the wilderness when it ambushes except displayed blood