خُذْ جَيِّدَ الشِّعرِ مِمَّا أَثْبَتَ المَاحِي

مَا جَوَّدَ الشِّعْرَ مِثْلُ المُثْبِتِ المَاحِي

Take the best of poetry from what the composer has created

None has embellished poetry like the accomplished composer

ديوَانُ عَصْرٍ تَرَى فِيهِ رَوَائِعَه

مِنْ كُلِّ مُزْدَهِرٍ أَوْ كُلِّ لَمَّاحِ

An anthology of an era in which you see its masterpieces

From every blossoming or every flashing one

يُسَلْسِلُ اللَّفْظَ فَالألْبَابُ فِي طَرَبٍ

مِنْ نَشْوَةِ الرُّوحِ لاَ مِن نَشْوَةِ الرَّاحِ

It strings words so minds are in rapture

From the bliss of the soul, not from the bliss of the wind

تَرَى قَوَافِيه فِي حُسْنِهَا نَبَتاً

كَمَا تَلاَحَقَ مِصْبَاحٌ بِمِصْبَاحِ

You see its rhymes in their beauty like plants

As lamps follow one another

إِذَا تَرَنَّم بَيْنَ الحَفْلِ يُنْشِدُهُ

سَمِعْتَ آيَةَ تَبْيَانٍ وَإِفْصَاحِ

When he recites it in a gathering and declaims it

You hear a clear and eloquent verse