مررتُ على أسرابِ طيركَ وقفاً

مررتُ على أسرابِ طيركَ وقفاً

فأرسلتُ عقباني إليها تصيدُها

فأرسلتُ عقباني إليها تصيدُها

I passed by flocks of your birds at rest,

I passed by flocks of your birds standing still,

So I loosed my eagles upon them to hunt them.

So I sent my falcons to hunt them down.

فلم تُغنِ عنها في اللقاءِ صفوفُها

فلم تُغنِ عنها في اللقاءِ صفوفُها

ولم تُغنِ عنها في البراز رُدُودُها

ولم تُغنِ عنها في البراز رُدُودُها

Their ranks availed them nothing in the encounter,

But their ranks did not avail them at the encounter,

Nor did their counterattacks avail them in single combat.

Nor did their fleeing help them get away.

أكُرُّ على ما فرّ منها كأنَّني

أكُرُّ على ما فرّ منها كأنَّني

أكرُّ على فرسان حَربٍ أذُودُها

أكرُّ على فرسان حَربٍ أذُودُها

I charge at those among them that have fled, as though I

I resented their escaping as if I resented

Were charging at horsemen of war, driving them back.

Knights of war whom I drove away.

فأذكرتني ما قال عاشقُ خِلَّةٍ

فأذكرتني ما قال عاشقُ خِلَّةٍ

بَرى جسمَه هجرانُها وصدودُها

بَرى جسمَه هجرانُها وصدودُها

So they reminded me of what a lover said to his beloved,

Then I recalled what a lover of Khillah said

Whose abandonment and rejection had wasted his body:

When he saw her body shun him and avoid him:

فلو أنَّ ما أبقيت مني مُعلَّقٌ

فلو أنَّ ما أبقيت مني مُعلَّقٌ

بعُودِ ثُمامٍ ما تأوَّدَ عُودُها

بعُودِ ثُمامٍ ما تأوَّدَ عُودُها

“For if what you have left of me were suspended

"If what is left of me were hung

From a stalk of thumam grass, its stalk would not bend.”

On a tamarisk's twigs, they would not bend under it."