1. له يدٌ للندى لو أنّها خُلقَتْ

    قبلَ النّدى ما تَسَمّى غَيرَها الكرَمُ

    He has a hand for bounty; had it been created

    before bounty, generosity would have taken that hand's name alone.

  2. تُريكَ قطراً وتكسو الطرس آونةً

    زهراً إلا مثل هذا تصنَعُ الدِّيَمُ

    It shows you rain and, at times, clothes the page

    in blossoms—only the like of this do the steady rains produce.

  3. لا بَلْ هو البحرُ والبحرُ الخضمُّ على

    ما فاته منه بالأمواج يَلتْطمُ

    No, rather, he is the sea; and the vast sea, for

    what it cannot match in him, beats itself with waves.