Poems
- أجدك شاقتك الحمول البواكرTruly, have the dawn-departing camel-caravans stirred your longing?
- ألم تلمم على الدمن البواليHave you not stopped at the timeworn camp ruins,
- أمن دمنة من آل ليلى غشيتهاIs it at a campsite of Layla’s people that you visited,
- طول وطول فترى كفهBounty and stature—so you see his hand
- عفت فردة من أهلها فشطيبهاFardah has faded, emptied of its people, and so has its Shaṭīb;
- غدت عذالتاي فقلت مهلاMy two reprovers came in the morning; I said, "Gently!"
- كذبتك ما وعدتك أمس صلاحSalah lied to you about what she promised you yesterday.
- لحى الله دهرا شره دون خيرهMay God curse an age whose evil lies nearer than its good,
- ومولى على ما رابني قد طويتهAnd I have borne with a kinsman despite what troubled me,
- ومولى قد لبست على هناتAnd an ally I have borne with despite his failings,
- يا صاحبي ألما بي على الطللO my two companions, stop with me at the ruins,
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