Ever since the river, veiled by the boughs, concealed its yearning, it set about (1) fashioning her image within its own heart;
The breeze—her ardent lover—grew jealous of him, so it drew near and by its caress made her branches sway.

He also said, in another poem:
When Being confirmed Itself in the realm of possibility above you (2) and His decree became manifest in the world of forms,
He distinguished the gathered multiplicity from Himself, though He is ever One (3); and so your differences became evident in that same world of forms.

And in the muḫallaʿ al-basīṭ metre:
I have lords beyond whom I see no other; they are the very substance of my meaning, the core within my breast (4).
They have encompassed every particle of me, yet are too exalted for my glance to reach.
They beheld the breadth of my poverty, my long-drawn humiliation, my utter weakness;
So they treated me with sheer bounty, constant beneficence, and pure gentleness.
Do not blame me if I trail my cloak in pride of them, or bend my neck in lofty joy.

He further composed—and it is blameless (5)—in the wāfir metre:
The gifts of the Lord of Majesty reach me in unbroken succession (6); You have struck me silent, while they themselves speak forth in gratitude.
Grace after grace after grace, and glad tidings upon glad tidings upon glad tidings (7):
They have a beginning, but no end; their increase is assured in this world and the next.

Al-Ḥājj Ṭaybars ibn ʿAbd Allah (8), ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, the vizier and son-in-law of al-Malik al-Ẓāhir,
was among the greatest emirs (9) to whom decision-making was entrusted. He was devout and lavish in almsgiving; he endowed a khan in Damascus (10),