1. O welcome, O you who brought joy
With your radiance to a soul longing for you

2. You have renewed the pact of youth for me newly
You came to me and brought abundant joy

3. And I had bent my will from the abode of passion
Though I was obeyed among the lovely ladies

4. But when the auspicious star shone for me with her
Whom I loved, the inclination returned insistently

5. Why should I not be devoted to her, though she
Is a gift from one most glorious and of vast renown

6. Yes indeed, the polite youth who visited me
Whose mention on earth remains and spreads

7. O son of my love, if I compose a poem about him
The poetry will spread its aroma and be lost

8. For how can singers emulate the likes of him
Alas, none can equal his words in song

9. I am enthralled by him and indeed
I am most deserving of the lover's devotion

10. I still keep safeguarding your pure affection
And my affection was never false

11. May God favor you, O you who granted me a love
On which the perfection of beauty became a veil

12. May God favor you, for you have bestowed on me a blessing
For which my effort to reward you was lost

13. You have ennobled my worth, when time effaced its law
And glorified my name when it was disgraced

14. You gave me remembrance after I had none
And settled me after being unsettled

15. To God I complain of the weakness of my inability to repay
Alas, even if I sold my life it would not suffice

16. But I know that I cannot requite you
So my intercession with you - and the weak are considered

17. And whom you clothed with your praise as a veil
With greetings of peace, O companion of the heart after

18. It became desolate in this time of pasturage