1. يُدافِعُني مَهرانُ في نَقدِ دِرهَمٍ

    كَأَنَّكَ في شَيءٍ كَبيرٍ تُدافِعُ

    Mihran puts me off over the payment of a dirham,

    as though you were stalling over some great matter.

  2. فَكَيفَ وَقَد زُوِّجتَ خَوداً كَأَنَّها

    إِذا ما مَشَت في الدارِ أَدماءُ ظالِعُ

    How then, when you have already been married to a young woman who resembles

    a limping pale she-camel whenever she walks about the house?

  3. تَطيفُ بِها كَأَنَّما أَنتَ آزِمٌ

    بِفَروَةِ كَبشٍ قُدَّ مِنهُ الأَكارِعُ

    You circle around her as though you were biting

    on the pelt of a ram whose trotters have been severed.