1. لا تسلني عن المشيبِ فمذ جَل

    لَلَ رأسي كرهاً جفاني الغرامُ

    Do not ask me about gray hair: ever since it

    covered my head against my will, love has shunned me.

  2. ليس للّهو والصَّبابة واللّذ

    ذاتِ في أربُعِ المشيب مُقامُ

    There is no place for diversion, yearning, or pleasures

    in the dwellings of gray hair.

  3. ما جنى الشيبَ في المفارق إلّا

    عَنَتُ الغانياتِ والأيّامُ

    Nothing brought gray hair to the partings of my hair but

    the torment of beautiful women, and the days.

  4. هو مقصٌ عند الحسان كما أن

    نَ شباباً مكانَ شيبٍ تَمامُ

    It is shears in beautiful women's eyes, just as

    youth in place of gray hair is perfection.

  5. وَسقامٌ وما اِستوتْ لك في ني

    ل أمانيك صحّةٌ وسقامُ

    And it is sickness; in attaining

    your wishes, health and sickness are not equal for you.

  6. ومتى رمتُ عَرجةً عنه قالتْ

    لِي التّجاريبُ رُمتَ ما لا يُرامُ

    And whenever I sought to turn away from it, experience said

    to me, 'You sought what cannot be attained.'