Poems
- إذا انقطعت نفس الفتى وأجنهWhen a young man's breath has ceased and he is hidden
- إذا شئت تدري ما نفوس قبيلةIf you wish to know a tribe’s character,
- أقول للصحب في البيضاء دونكمI say to the companions in al-Bayda: here you have
- إن الليالي نجت بي فهي محسنةTruly, the nights delivered me, and so have dealt kindly with me—
- إني أرقت لبرق ضافني سارI lay awake for a lightning flash that visited me by night.
- إني دعوتك يا إله محمدI called upon You, O God of Muhammad
- تأوبني فبت لها كنيعاThey came back to me at night, and I lay subdued by them:
- تربعن غولا فالرجام فمنعجاThey spent the spring at Ghawl, then al-Rijām, then Manʿij,
- تعلمن يا ذود اللبيين سيرةLearn, O camel herd of the two Lubayys, a way of traveling
- ذكرت هندا وما يغني تذكرهاI remembered Hind—yet what good is remembering her?
- على قدم مكنونة اللون رخصةUpon a tender foot of sheltered hue,
- نظرت وأصحابي تعالى ركابهمI looked, and my friends their mounts urging on,
- وإن امرأ يغدو وحجر وراءهAnd indeed, a man who sets out in the morning with Hajr behind him
- يا جمل إنك لو شهدت بسالتيO Juml, had you witnessed my valor
- يا دار بين بزاخة فكثيبهاO house between buzzing hornets and its hilltops
- يا رب أبغض بيت أنت خالقهO Lord, the most loathsome house You have created
- يا رب دوار أنقذ أهله عجلاO Lord of Dawār, rescue its people swiftly;
- يا صاحبي وباب السجن دونكماO my two companions, with the prison gate between you and me,
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