أَكفِئ سَوامَكَ في الدُنيا مُياسَرَةً

أَكفِئ سَوامَكَ في الدُنيا مُياسَرَةً

وَأَعرِضَن عَن قَوافي الشِعرِ تُكفِئُها

وَأَعرِضَن عَن قَوافي الشِعرِ تُكفِئُها

Grant others the year's yield of your grazing herd in this world, with generosity;

Turn your efforts in life to bring prosperity

And shun poetic rhymes whose final consonants you mismatch.

And turn away from rhyming couplets of verse

إِنَّ الشَبيبَةَ نارٌ إِن أَرَدتَ بِها

إِنَّ الشَبيبَةَ نارٌ إِن أَرَدتَ بِها

أَمراً فَبادِرهُ إِنَّ الدَهرَ مُطفِئُها

أَمراً فَبادِرهُ إِنَّ الدَهرَ مُطفِئُها

Indeed, youth is a fire; if through it you seek

Youth is a fire, if you want something from it

An aim, hasten to achieve it, for time will quench that fire.

Act quickly, for time will extinguish its burn

أَصابَ جَمرِيَ قُرٌّ فَاِنتَبَهتُ لَهُ

أَصابَ جَمرِيَ قُرٌّ فَاِنتَبَهتُ لَهُ

وَالنارُ تُدفِئُ ضَيفي حينَ أُدفِئُها

وَالنارُ تُدفِئُ ضَيفي حينَ أُدفِئُها

Bitter cold struck my embers, and I took heed of it;

The embers of my passion were stirred awake

And the fire warms my guest when I warm it.

The fire warms my guest as I kindle its glow

أَلقى عَلَيها جَليسي في الدُجى حُمَماً

أَلقى عَلَيها جَليسي في الدُجى حُمَماً

فَقامَ عَنها بِأَثوابٍ يُرَفِّئُها

فَقامَ عَنها بِأَثوابٍ يُرَفِّئُها

My companion cast charcoal onto it in the darkness;

My companion heaped ashes on it in the dark

Then he rose from beside it with garments to darn.

Then left with clothes perfumed in its smoky scent