وَشُغِلتَ عَن حَسَبِ الكِرامِ وَما بَنَوا

إِنَّ اللَئيمَ عَنِ المَكارِمِ يُشغَلُ

You were preoccupied from noble deeds though they did not build

Indeed the vile are preoccupied from virtues

إِنَّ الَّتي فُقِأَت بِها أَبصارُكُم

وَهِيَ الَّتي دَمَغَت أَباكَ الفَيصَلُ

Indeed the one with which your sights were gouged out

And it is the one that crushed your eminent ancestor Al-Faisal

وَهَبَ القَصائِدَ لي النَوابِغَ إِذ مَضَوا

وَأَبو يَزيدَ وَذو القُروحِ وَجَروَلُ

The prime poets bequeathed odes to me when they passed away

And Abu Yazid and Dhu al-Quruh and Jarwal

وَالفَحلُ عَلقَمَةُ الَّذي كانَت لَهُ

حُلَلُ المُلوكِ كَلامُهُ لا يُنحَلُ

And the stallion Alqama, whose

Royal garments, his words cannot be undone

وَأَخو بَني قَيسٍ وَهُنَّ قَتَلنَهُ

وَمُهَلهِلُ الشُعَراءِ ذاكَ الأَوَّلُ

And the brother of Bani Qais, and they are the ones who killed him

And the confounder of poets, that former one

وَالأَعشَيانِ كِلاهُما وَمُرَقِّشٌ

وَأَخو قُضاعَةَ قَولُهُ يُتَمَثَّلُ

And the two A’shas, both of them, and Muruqqish

And the brother of Qudha’ah, his words can be imagined

وَأَخو بَني أَسَدٍ عُبَيدٌ إِذ مَضى

وَأَبو دُؤادٍ ةَولُهُ يُتَنَحَّلُ

And the brother of Bani Asad, Ubayd when he passed away

And Abu Du’ad, his words can be unraveled

وَاِبنا أَبي سُلمى زُهَيرٌ وَاِبنُهُ

وَاِبنُ الفُرَيعَةِ حينَ جَدَّ المِقوَلُ

And the two sons of Abi Sulma, Zuhair and his son

And the son of Al-Fura’ah when he profusely spoke

وَالجَعفَرِيُّ وَكانَ بِشرٌ قَبلَهُ

لي مِن قَصائِدِهِ الكِتابُ المُجمَلُ

And Al-Ja’fari, and Bashr was before him

I have from his odes the inscribed compilation

وَلَقَد وَرِثتُ لِآلِ أَوسٍ مَنطِقاً

كَالسُمِّ خالَطَ جانِبَيهِ الحَنظَلُ

And I have indeed inherited from the family of Aws eloquence

Like poison mixed with its sides some herbs

وَالحارِثِيُّ أَخو الحِماسِ وَرِثتُهُ

صَدعاً كَما صَدَعَ الصَفاةَ المِعوَلُ

And Al-Harithi, the brother of fervor I inherited him

As a crack as the pickaxe cracked As-Safa

يَصدَعنَ ضاحِيَةَ الصَفا عَن مَتنِها

وَلَهُنَّ مِن جَبَلَي عَمايَةَ أَثقَلُ

Cracking the surface of As-Safa from its core

And for them from the two mountains of ‘Amaiyah is the heaviest

دَفَعوا إِلَيَّ كِتابَهُنَّ وَصِيَّةً

فَوَرِثتُهُنَّ كَأَنَّهُنَّ الجَندَلُ

They handed over to me their book as a will

So I inherited them as if they are the locust swarm

فيهِنَّ شارَكَني المُساوِرَ بَعدَهُم

وَأَخو هَوازِنَ وَالشَآمي الأَخطَلُ

In them the braceleted wrists shared with me after them

And the brother of Hawazin and the Syrian Akhtal

وَبَنو غُدانَةَ يُحلَبونَ وَلَم يَكُن

خَيلي يَقومُ لَها اللَئيمُ الأَعزَلُ

And the sons of Gudanah are being milked while

My horses cannot be withstood by the miserable barefoot

فَلَيَبرُكَن يا حِقَّ إِن لَم تَنتَهوا

مِن مالِكَيَّ عَلى غُدانَةَ كَلكَلُ

So may you prosper O truth if you do not refrain

From my properties upon Gudanah like fetters