كم مقاماتِ نُهًى حرَّرها

ليس فيها للحريريِّ مقامَه

How many stations of prohibition he wrote

In which al-Hariri had no place

وأنيقاتِ بهًى لو شامَها

جوهريُّ الشعرِ ما سام نظامه

And elegance of splendor, if he had perceived it

The essence of poetry is not what his system reached