1. يا هندُ مَنْ لأخي غرامٍ ما جرى

    بَرْقُ الثّغور لطرفه إِلاّ جرى

    O Hind, who will aid a brother of passion? Never has there flashed

    the lightning of smiling mouths before his eye without that eye streaming with tears.

  2. أَبكته شَيْبتُه وهل من عارضٍ

    شِمْتُ البوارقَ فيه إِلاّ أَمطرا

    His gray hair made him weep—and has any cloud

    whose lightning I watched ever failed to rain?

  3. لا تنكري وَضَحاً لَبِسْتُ قتيرَه

    رَكْضُ الزمان أَثار العِثْيَرا

    Do not disdain the whiteness whose gray flecks I have donned;

    time’s gallop has stirred up the dust.