1. If I had a day when eloquent tongues were independent
I would call friends gently with fine advice

2. But desire complained about me with tears
I did not gain from them except humiliation

3. I asked her to improve my state, perhaps
She would strive to improve it no matter what

4. Foolishness from me, else when
Did wishes gain what interpreters gained?

5. Her expression did not express any passion from me
If I complained about it to a rock, it would soften

6. So no tenderness for tenderness where
Their eyelids did not give safety to mine

7. And in the tents of the neighborhood I harbored harbored
My tenderness, tender of finger gentle branch

8. Delight of compassion on the edge of his mouth
And his utterance and his gentle glance

9. I sufficed with a cup like reddish wine
Soft and cheek of youthful red blood

10. When he appeared, desired, bent over
Full moon of darkness, gazelle of brightness, bending branch

11. I settled in my heart an inferno and who
Does wrong will be in the fire, not in paradise

12. Books of passion narrate about me
Not what so-and-so narrated about so-and-so