1. The blushing cheeks and languid eyes
Have kept me awake through the dark night

2. The playful, smooth-skinned gazelle
With neck like a young date tree, so bright

3. The sweet, gentle, precious doe
Whose mouth’s taste inevitably brings delight

4. Oh you, who let down your braids
Above your radiant, rosy cheeks

5. With curled locks and shining beads
And brilliant earrings that seek

6. Kiss him, for in kissing him I find delight
I am a lover who will not desert

7. The taste of passion was never bitter
First it was like jest, last it was the worst evil

8. O eloquent one, the gazelles of the palace
Have blossomed with the radiant, glowing cheeks

9. The taste of your saliva is perfumed wine
With musk, it is so fragrant

10. From it comes the coolness of breasts, from it the heat of ember
If I listed your attributes, they could not be counted

11. Whoever saw your image said: God is Greater
Oh you, who has captivated me

12. Why does your heart show me enmity?
Oh my sorrow and humiliation

13. From the prince of lovers
Whenever I come to reproach him, I am spellbound

14. I said: be patient, but I said: upon what can one be patient?
And blessings upon Ahmad as much as can be counted