وَكَم أَغَصَّ بِماءِ المُرهَفاتِ عِدىً

فَلَم تَدَع غُصَصاً إِلّا إِلى شَرَقِ

How many victims has it drowned with floods of tears,

Leaving no flooded areas but to the east,

صَوارِمٌ تَحمِلُ الآجالَ لابِسَةً

عَلى سَرائِرَها ثَوباً مِنَ المَلَقِ

Swords carrying destinies wearing

On their sheaths a garment of smoothness,

أَثنى عَلَيهِ بِأَشعارٍ كَواكِبُها

يَطلُعنَ مِن مَجدِكَ الوَضّاحِ في أُفُقِ

Its stars praised it with poetry

Rising from your evident glory on the horizon,

أَبى الجَميلُ سُكوتي عَن مَديحِكُمُ

فَما سَكَتُّ وَلَم أَبلُغ وَلم أُطِقِ

The beautiful refused my silence about you

So I did not stay silent, I failed to attain and was not capable,

هَذا إِلى أَنَّ أَقوالي كَما عَلِموا

مِن المُلوكِ وَبَعضَ القَولِ كَالسُوَقِ

This is until my words, as they knew,

From kings is some talk like the market,

وَالسَمحُ يَنسُبُهُ شِعري إِلى كَرَمِ

كَالنورِ تَنسُبُهُ عَيني إِلى الفَلَقِ

And generosity my poetry attributes to your generosity

Like my eye attributes light to the daybreak,

أَشمَتَّني بِهُمومي فَهيَ هالِكَةٌ

أَجهِز فَما تُؤمَنُ الأَعدا مَعَ الرِفقِ

It rejoiced at my worries so they are destroyed,

Prepare, for enemies cannot be trusted with kindness