1. I saw a face one night of separation
It made me fall in love, then turned away

2. How strange that he's content to be apart
When we were enslaved by his beauty, glorified is God

3. Did God adorn you with beauty just
For us to see in you a sign made clear?

4. You ruined me and taught me nothing but
Love, so why not reform me, why not?

5. One glance from you, had you but pitied, would restore
Life in us, like a meadow refreshed, serene and fair

6. We have none but that chest as refuge
Or haven, and even that we seldom share

7. I never thought time would make me see
A place where I cannot rest close by

8. You are the most deserving of gentleness, the first
To follow estrangement and misguidance rather

9. After that promise, nothing left but memories
Of nights now past, where I tasted no sweetness

10. My life just stops, though I
Find time itself too heavy to walk through

11. If only I knew the excuse of cruel time
Or how it defends itself when it goes astray

12. The burden of absence weighed heavy
On my enduring heart, and I accepted its darkness

13. Will you come closer when you’ve already
Increased nothing for the hopeful but miserliness?

14. Better than the toil of sleep would be my rest
In your gentle shade - that would be sweeter

15. Though in love, I make do with memories
When my love is not easy to reach

16. I have a heart that yearning shatters
Yet I'm blamed, though I kept a pact, or else?

17. You don't refuse to love me, but
You refuse to maintain - unjustly, confused

18. You're angry at me, yet by my life
My sacrifice is too small, and you too dear

19. How much injustice and blame on us
While we maintain - did you do well, or no?

20. I wonder when the nights will allow us
Togetherness - hopefully, perhaps

21. Accompanying a goblet, that we may rejoice like the sea
And spend the night as the sea's people do

22. What has distracted you from the ship of intimacy
When you used to come to me before all else?

23. We never stopped hoping for your arrival
Until we grew weary of hoping and tired

24. I have a gathering by the Nile - come!
Unless you join me there, come!

25. The eye's pleasure is in seeing a view
And my soul's in conversing openly

26. Where we fear not time, and are not
Disturbed by any blame or trouble

27. It is comfort, we flare up from it, then
Draw long draughts, and keep drawing

28. We spend the night sipping a drink
Than which none dispels care better

29. Between our cups, there is a discourse that
Bares a heart confiding its dictation to you

30. A wine is not relished unless
With a boon companion sweeter than it

31. An intimate friend as delightful
As intimacy - that would suffice if time allowed

32. Will I see the success of what hopes promised me
Or will they sell it and return barren?

33. I'm not finessed in finesse, nor, though bold of eye,
Do I bestow favors if given the few

34. If you are generous, I'll trail my skirt. But if
You withhold, I'll not lack a wrap

35. So long as you are my love, time can offer me nothing