1. دَعِ اللومَ أو لَمني فلست بسامعٍ

    لقد ضلَّ من أمسى بنصحك يَهتدي

    Leave off blame, or blame me, for I am not listening.

    Whoever has come to be guided by your counsel has surely gone astray.

  2. فما العيشُ إلا أن أموت صبابة

    بلَبلى ولم أمدُد إلى غيرها يدي

    For life is nothing but my dying of passionate longing

    for Lablā, and I have reached my hand toward no one else.

  3. حضمَت ثغرها والخدَّ عن حائم شَجٍ

    له أملٌ في مَوردٍ ومُوَرَّدِ

    She [apparently] guarded her lips and cheek from a hovering, grief-stricken lover,

    who hopes for a watering place and a rose-tinted cheek.

  4. وكم هام قلبي لارتشاف رُضابها

    فأعرَب عن تفضيل نَحوِ المُبَرِّدِ

    And how often my heart has yearned to sip her saliva,

    so it declared its preference for the grammar of al-Mubarrid.

  5. وتُقعدها الأردافُ عند قِيامها

    فها أنا منها في مُقيمٍ ومُقعدِ

    And her buttocks make her sit when she rises,

    so here I am, because of her, amid what makes me rise and what makes me sit.