Among his other verses are the following:
I bade them farewell while the whole world was likewise taking leave;
I departed with nothing left to desire save their memory. (1)

I said, “How sweet is my life when I am among them—
for once they are gone, the clarity of my days turns murky.” (2)

Had my heart not kept itself alive with hope of seeing them again,
I would have found it—when they sang to urge on the camels—breaking apart. (3)

Would that their camels, on the day we parted, had been slaughtered,
cast to the beasts of prey that roam the wastes!

O hour of parting, you are the very Hour that has drawn near;
O anguish of separation, you are a fire that blazes.

Another of his poems says:
I sought a true friend in the whole breadth of the earth,
but my quest exhausted me before I could find one.

Yes—many lay claim to the title of “friend” only figuratively,
but in the reality of affection they are not sincere.

So I pronounced an irrevocable divorce (4) from the love of mankind,
and awoke freed from the fetters of obligation.

[Then came the year 463 AH]

In that year:
The King of the Byzantines, Romanos, advanced with hosts like mountains—Byzantines, Georgians, and Franks—accompanied by vast equipment and awe-inspiring display. With him were 35,000 patricians, each patrician commanding between 2,000 (5) and 500 horsemen. He was also joined by 35,000 Franks, 15,000 of the Ghuzz who dwell (6) beyond Constantinople, 100,000 sappers and miners, and 1,000 rozzagārī (7). In addition, he brought 400 wagons laden with sandals and nails, and 2,000 wagons carrying weapons, saddles, ʿarrādāt (8) and mangonels, one of which required 1,200 men to wind it. His intention—may Allah Most High abase him—was to uproot Islam and its people, and he even granted fiefs to his patricians stretching as far as Baghdad.