Claude 2

  1. عَرينٌ مِن عُرَينَةَ لَيسَ مِنّا

    بَرِئتُ إِلى عُرَينَةَ مِن عَرينِ

    A den from Urayna is not one of ours

    I disavow Urayna for a den

  2. قُبَيَّلَةٌ أَناخَ اللُؤمُ فيها

    فَلَيسَ اللُؤمُ تارِكَهُم لِحينِ

    A tribe where baseness has pitched its tents

    Baseness does not leave them for a while

  3. عَرَفنا جَعفَراً وَبَني عُبَيدٍ

    وَأَنكَرنا زَعانِفَ آخَرينِ

    We know Ja'far and the sons of Ubayd

    Yet we reject the fins of others

  4. أَتَوعِدُني وَراءَ بَني رِياحٍ

    كَذَبتَ لِتَقصُرَنَّ يَداكَ دوني

    Do you threaten me from behind the sons of Riyah?

    You lied to make your hands fall short of me

  5. فَنِعمَ الوَفدُ وَفدُ بَني رِياحٍ

    وَنِعمَ فَوارِسُ الفَزَعِ اليَقينِ

    So excellent is the delegation, the delegation of the sons of Riyah

    And excellent are the brave ones of certain escape

  6. أَكُلَّ الدَهرِ حِلٌّ وَاِرتِحالٌ

    أَما يُبقي عَلَيَّ وَما يَقيني

    Is not all of fate departure and moving on?

    Will it not leave me and save me?

  7. وَماذا يَبتَغي الشُعَراءُ مِنّي

    وَقَد جاوَزتُ حَدَّ الأَربَعينِ

    What do the poets want from me

    When I have passed forty years of age?