1. أَلا هَلْ أتى ذاتَ الخواتِم فَرِّتْي

    عَشِيَّةَ بَيْنَ الجُرْفِ والنَّجْدِ مِنْ يَعْرِ

    Ah, has news of my escape reached the woman with the rings,

    That evening between the escarpment and the upland of Yaʿr,

  2. عَشِيَّةَ كادتْ عامِرٌ يَقْتُلونَني

    لَدى طَرفِ السَّلْماءِ رَاغِيَةِ البَكْرِ

    The evening when ʿĀmir nearly killed me,

    By the edge of al-Salmāʾ, Rāghiyat al-Bakr—“the young camel’s bellow”?

  3. فما الظَّبْيُ أَخْطَتْ خِلفَةَُ الصَقْرِ رجْلَه

    وقد كادَ يلقى الموْتَ في خِلْفَةِ الصَّقْر

    No gazelle whose leg the falcon’s talon missed,

    Though it had nearly met death in the falcon’s talon,

  4. بِمِثْلي غداةَ القوْم بينَ مقُنَّع

    وآخر كالسَّكْرانِ مُرْتَكِزٍ يَفْري

    Was my equal that morning among the men, between one helmeted

    And another, like a drunken man, braced and slashing.