قُلتُ وَقد قيلَ بَدا شِعرُهُ

بِمِثلِ ذاكَ الشِعرِ لا يُشعَرُ

I said, though it was said his poetry

Showed with that poetry he had no poetic gift.

هَل زَغَبُ الحُسنِ لَهُ ضائِرٌ

ذا القَمرُ التمُّ بِهِ يَقمُرُ

Does the brushwood of beauty have harmful thorns

When the moon-like one is perfected by it?