1. لم أستطع أنهى اللتي انهلت

    من أدمعي بعد التي واللت

    I could not stem what streamed

    Of my tears after she turned away [reading uncertain].

  2. هوى واعراض ولا صبر لي

    فع التي هي الاصل في علتي

    Passion and aversion, and no patience in me—

    So heed her who is the root of my illness.

  3. ومقلة شهلاء مكحولة

    لله ما اشهى التي اشهلت

    And a hazel eye, lined with kohl—

    By God, how desirable is she who has hazel eyes!

  4. فلا تلوموا في خضوع جرى

    فذي التي قد أوجبت ذلتي

    So do not blame me for the submission that came;

    For this is she who caused my abasement.

  5. لو أنصف العذال لاموا التي

    صدت ولم تهجر ولا ملت

    Had the reproachers been fair, they would have blamed her

    Who turned away, yet neither forsook me nor grew weary.

  6. لم أدر هل أغرت بقلبي الهوى

    أمس التي تعدل أم سلت

    I do not know: did she set passion against my heart

    Yesterday—she who acts justly—or draw it forth?

  7. واعجبا ما أنكرت هند من

    خلائقي وما التي ملت

    How strange! What has Hind found fault with in

    My character, and what has she tired of?

  8. قكل قدح هين ما خلا

    قدح التي في القلب قد حلت

    So every reproach is light, except

    The reproach of her who has settled in my heart.

  9. قد قدّ أحشائي وأفدى بها

    قدّ التي في الحب قد دلت

    Indeed, it has rent my entrails, and with them I would ransom

    The figure of her who has been coy in love.

  10. وددت لو باتت معي ليلة

    اوصا التي في الحلق أو صلت

    I wished she would spend one night with me,

    [Unclear] that which is in the throat, or [unclear].

  11. سيوف ألحاظك روعنني

    تالله لا أنسي التي انسلت

    The swords of your glances have terrified me;

    By God, I shall not forget those that slipped free.

  12. كم من أذى أحمل لكنني

    وجدت نفسي كالتي كلت

    How much hurt I bear! Yet I

    Have found my soul like one grown weary.

  13. يا ويح نفسي منك لو أنها

    اعتا التي في الكون لاعتلت

    Alas for my soul because of you! Were it

    The most unyielding in existence, it would fall ill.

  14. إن لم تريها منك مختلة

    رأيتها أُختَ التي اختلت

    If you do not see it disordered by you,

    You will see it as the sister of one disordered.

  15. اذقتها ما ذاق يوم الوغا

    من أحمد أعضا التي اعضلت

    You made it taste what was tasted on battle's day

    At Ahmad's hands by the limbs of those who proved formidable.

  16. الملك الناصر من نوره

    نحو الهدى اضا التي ضلت

    The king al-Nasir, by whose light

    Those who had strayed were illumined toward guidance.

  17. من في الطلا عادة اسيافه

    قط التي في الحق قد طلت

    He whose swords, among necks, are accustomed

    To sever those whose blood is justly forfeit.

  18. صانت دم النفس التي حرمت

    واعتمدت ذبح التي حلت

    They guarded the blood of the inviolable soul,

    And sought to slaughter the one whose killing was lawful.

  19. صليلها في الهام قاد العدى

    كرها وهل تعصى التي صلت

    Their clang among skulls drove the foes

    Unwillingly—can swords that clang be defied?

  20. واكتسبت عزا به أذهبت

    إذا التي من أجلها ذلت

    And they won honor, with which they drove away

    Then, the one for whose sake they had been humbled [wording unclear].

  21. وافنت الأعدا سوى عصبة

    ماسورة اوقا التي قلت

    And they annihilated the enemies, save a band

    Held captive—the most protected of those left few.

  22. تحمى من الذيب باقصى الفلا

    الغز التي تعزب عن زلت

    From the wolf, in the remotest desert, are protected

    The Ghuzz [uncertain reading], who wander away from [unclear].

  23. ويؤمن الطرق التي لم تدس

    ويعمر الأنحا التي انحلت

    And he makes safe the roads not yet trodden,

    And restores the regions that have fallen apart.

  24. كم من جيوش فلها وانتقا

    لبيضه أفتى التي افتلت

    How many armies he routed, and chose

    For his bright blades the youngest of those that escaped.

  25. إذا شكى حادثة جاره

    انشا التي إن ننشها انشلت

    If his neighbor complains of a calamity,

    He brings forth that which, if we shoo it away, is driven off [reading uncertain].

  26. قال لها أعني صروف الردا

    لاحى التي تسكن لا حلتي

    He said to her—I mean the vicissitudes of death—

    Rebuke the one who dwells—not my encampment [wording unclear].

  27. إن عرضت سحب ندا ترتجي

    فسحبه منها التي انهلت

    If clouds of bounty appear, inspiring hope,

    Then his clouds are those among them that pour down.

  28. ما خلقت أثواب أخلاقه

    ولا اكتست اسما التي اسملت

    The garments of his character have not worn out,

    Nor donned the names of those grown threadbare.

  29. قل للعدى دينوا لسطواته

    كي تغمد الباسا التي سلت

    Tell the foes: submit to his onslaughts,

    So that the adversity drawn forth may be sheathed.

  30. واستقبلوا أفعاله بالرضا

    والقوا التي منها على القلت

    And receive his deeds with approval,

    And face those among them that verge on ruin.

  31. ولازموا أبوابه إنها

    منجا التي دقت ومن جلت

    And keep to his doors; they are

    A refuge for the small and the great.