1. أَتَرجو رَبيعٌ أَن يَجيءَ صِغارُها

    بِخَيرٍ وَقَد أَعيا رَبيعاً كِبارُها

    Does Rabīʿ hope that its young will come

    with good, when its elders have already worn Rabīʿ out?

  2. عُتُلّونَ صَخّابو العَشِيِّ كَأَنَّهُم

    جِداءٌ مِنَ المِعزى شَديدٌ يَعارُها

    Brutish men, clamorous at evening, as though they were

    goat kids whose bleating is loud.

  3. إِذا النَجمُ وافى مَغرِبَ الشَمسِ حارَدَت

    مَقاري عُبَيدٍ وَاِشتَكى القِدرَ جارُها

    When the star reaches the sun's setting-place, empty grow

    ʿUbayd's guest-bowls, and the pot's neighbor complains of it.