1. لأندبُ رسم دارهم المحيلا

    وأسالُ عنهم الريح البليلا

    I shall lament the faded trace of their dwelling,

    And ask the cool, moist wind about them.

  2. وبي هيفاء من ظبيات نجد

    تُضاهي الغصنَ والحقف المهيلا

    I am smitten with a slender-waisted beauty, one of Najd’s gazelles,

    Who resembles a bough and a curving dune of loose sand.

  3. أقول وقد توارت يوم حزوى

    بكلتها وأسعفت الحمولال

    I say, as she vanished from sight that day at Hazwa,

    Behind her curtain, having aided the camel-train:

  4. كرهتِ منازلاً قلبي وعيني

    فكيف رضيتِ أحشائي مقيلا

    You spurned my heart and eye as dwelling places;

    How, then, did you accept my entrails as a place of noonday rest?