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The earliest Coffee poems sprung from the religious and political persecutions in Mecca. Taken from the article A History of Coffee in Literature here is an Arabic translation of one of the first coffee poems published

In Praise of Coffee
O coffee! Loved and fragrant drink, thou drivest care away,

The object thou of that man’s wish who studies night and day.

Thou soothest him, thou giv’st him health, and God doth favor those

Who walk straight on in wisdom’s way, nor seek their own repose.

Fragrant as musk thy berry is, yet black as ink in sooth!

And he who sips thy fragrant cup can only know the truth.

Insensate they who, tasting not, yet vilify its use;

For when they thirst and seek its help, God will the gift refuse.

Oh, coffee is our wealth! for see, where’er on earth it grows,

Men live whose aims are noble, true virtues who disclose.

Through its long history coffee has become a beloved drink to every civilized nation on earth and as such the poets have embraced its essence as their own.
 
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