1. I said, though it was said his poetry
Showed with that poetry he had no poetic gift.
١. قُلتُ وَقد قيلَ بَدا شِعرُهُ
بِمِثلِ ذاكَ الشِعرِ لا يُشعَرُ
2. Does the brushwood of beauty have harmful thorns
When the moon-like one is perfected by it?
٢. هَل زَغَبُ الحُسنِ لَهُ ضائِرٌ
ذا القَمرُ التمُّ بِهِ يَقمُرُ