and among 12) his poems are the following verses. From one of the pieces in his collected works (1):

[al-Ṭawīl metre]
You have sent us, from the sorcery of your languid eye,
a wakefulness that forbids sleep to make friends with the lid.
My body beheld the beauty of your slender waist
and strove to resemble it, yet outdid it in subtle delicacy. (2)
You unveiled a face that put (3) the rising dawn to shame,
and you swayed (4) with a figure that taught the supple bough true grace. (5)
You rivalled your brother, the full moon on the night (6) of its fullness—
in brilliance and splendour you two were equal in radiance. (7)

He also said—when invited somewhere he sent these two lines in apology:

I am at home, and Allah has granted me
a boon-companion, a songstress, and clear wine;
so broaden your excuse for my delay in joining you—
a carefree man is occupied with what is his, not with what is borrowed. (8)

Abu Shama (9) said: In this same year, on the twelfth of Jumada al-Akhirah, there died
al-Badr al-Marāghī al-Khilāfī, known as al-Ṭawīl. Weak in religious observance, he neglected the prayer and was elated by his knowledge of dialectic and disputation in the fashion of the later scholars, content [with that which brings no benefit] (10). May Allah have mercy on us and on all Muslims.

[In the same year there also died] Nasir al-Din (11) Muhammad ibn Dawud ibn Yaqut al-Sarmi (12), the hadith scholar; he copied a great many ṭabaqāt collections (13).