1. Glowing, do I see a full moon rising or the bright smile of a crescent moon?
Lips or a ruby or ripe fruit,

2. Saliva or honey of a bashful maiden?
A glance or white pearls strung

3. Upon a dark twig grown in the sand.
Where are the gazes of a doe beside the double-glancing eyes

4. That turn me from my firmness with their glancing to and fro?
When he is bored of blame, his beauty intercedes for him.

5. So O you who my heart is aflame for and my eyes are in the gardens of Eden for,
Your love from me is pure affection, aloof from flirtation and coy glances.

6. And none before you has possessed my love
Nor would my soul allow itself to be possessed by coquetry.

7. When you enchanted me and possessed my heart,
You made my privacy as public as a highway.

8. So why, before my love clings to my heart
And before my pledge is locked within you,

9. Do my concerns weary me into weakness
And make every limb of mine weak?

10. Did not my estrangement from you suffice
And the torment my heart feels from being denied your company?

11. Whenever I think of spending my life
Wasted in passion for you, I strike my teeth.

12. I grieve over how my affection has been broken
And grieve over how my hopes in you were unfulfilled.

13. Most painful of what the nights have brought me
Is which of their horrors did not afflict me?

14. The fickleness of one whose heart is my home
And the aloofness of one whose eyes I've shut mine upon.