Among his other verses:

I am the ruddy-browed warrior whose coming the great battles foretold, / and who ever seized the world without first shouldering aside a rival?
My cavalry shall reach the land of Byzantium, / and at the farthest borders of China my gleaming blades will be unsheathed. (1)

It is also related that, when he was taken captive on his way to martyrdom, he said:

It is no wonder if the enemy’s dogs—whether of eloquent speech or foreign tongue—manage to bring down a lion; / did not the spear of Wahshi hand Hamzah over to death, and was not ʿAlī felled by the sword of Ibn Muljam? (2)

Saʿd Allah ibn Najā ibn al-Wādī said: My friend Manṣūr ibn Ibrāhīm told me:

When Ḥayṣ-Bayṣ (3) returned to Baghdad—after he had lampooned the caliph al-Mustarshid in hopes of gaining his protection—he composed regarding him:

I turned my stirrups away from Dubays ibn Mazyad; / his very tracks only stoke the fire of my unceasing grief.
Fleeing from a baseness that flaunts its obscenity, / and from a wretched departure after an even worse sojourn. (4)
So that my homestead might grow lush after long barrenness, / through a fair, radiant-browed Imām;
should the vast all-encompassing power enfold me in compassion, / with a spoken pledge of safety or the formal tying of a covenant.