1. لَعَمرُ أَبيكَ وَالأَنباءُ تُنمى

    لَنِعمَ الجارُ أُختُ بَني عُوارا

    By your father's life—and tidings are passed on—

    Truly, a fine protector is the sister of Banū ʿUwār!

  2. مِن الحَفَراتِ لَم تَفضَح أَباها

    وَلَم تَرفَع لِإِخَوتِها شَنارا

    One of the modest women, she did not disgrace her father,

    Nor did she bring shame upon her brothers.

  3. كَأَنَّ مَجامِعَ الأَردافِ مِنها

    نَقىً دَرَجَت عَلَيهِ الريحُ هارا

    It is as though the gathered fullness of her buttocks

    Were a crumbling sand dune over which the wind has passed.

  4. يَعافُ وِصالَ ذاتِ البَذلِ قَلبي

    وَيَتَّبِعُ المُمَنَّعَةَ النوارا

    My heart shuns intimacy with a woman who freely offers herself,

    And pursues the well-guarded, chaste woman.

  5. وَما عَجِزَت فَكيهَةُ يَومَ قامَت

    بِنَصلِ السَيفِ وَاِستَلَبوا الخِمارا

    And Fakīhah did not prove helpless on the day she stood

    With the sword's blade, while they snatched away the headscarf.