أعلمت من هنَّا وهنَّا

أضنيتني حاشاك ضنا

I have learned from here and there

You have saddened me, far be it from you, sadness

قم فازجر الطير البوارح

سانحاً رشأً اغنَّا

Arise and repel the predatory birds

With a flowing, melodious voice

واعتنَّ كالطيف الطروق

بمقلة الصب المعنى

And take care, like the gentle breeze

Of the eyelash of youthful meaning

واهزز ليَ القد الرشيق

مثقف الانبوب لدنا

And shake for me the slender, well-formed body

Cultured and refined

ارعيك مني مقلة

واسدُّ عن واشيك اذنا

Regard me with a eyelash

And block your ear from hearing ill of me

واسرّح اللحظ الطموح

بذلك الجعد المثنى

And unleash the ambitious glance

With those curled twin locks

آليت اقرب دانياً

او راشفاً من فيك دنّا

I have become the closest confidant

Or the most compassionate towards your distress

واعضُّ فيك اناملا

صفرا تشير اليك غبنا

And I bite my fingers in you

Yellow, pointing to you in sorrow

فلضلَّ من قد قاسني

ولبانتي في قيس لبنى

So he who has tested me has strayed

And my affliction in Qais is evident

او بابن عجلان وإن

ورد الحمام وما تأنى

Or Ibn 'Ajlan even if

The pigeons return and do not tire

حمَّلت قلبي ثقل ما

قد خفَّ منها الطود وزنا

I have burdened my heart with a weight

Lighter than which is the mountain and heaviness

يشتق من معناك معنى ال

حسن لي لفظا ومعنى

It derives from your meaning a meaning that

Is no fine expression or meaning for me

امَّا تراني ناحلاً

او خاضلاً بالدمع ردنا

Whether you see me conversing

Or failing, with tears flowing

او رافعاً من ناظر

من كاسر بالغنج جفنا

Or raising from my eyes

Those broken by coquetry and sorrow

أمحمد قد راق شعرك

في الورى لفظا ومعنى

O Muhammad, your poetry is pleasing

In the world, in expression and meaning

جاريت فيه زهيره

ولعزَّ فيه زهير خدنا

In it flow Zuhair

And charm with coquetry, Zuhair's cheek

احرزت من قصباته

متفنناً فناً ففنا

From its canes I have gained

Artistry upon artistry

زدنا من النظم الذي

هو منقص بزياد زدنا

Increase for us from the poetry which

Is deficient, with additions increase for us