1. They severed my limbs from my heart
While I was hoping for their affection

2. And they made me drink from the cup of their estrangement
Wanting to shorten my love, but it only grew longer

3. They ordained I should die of passion for their love
And patience left me completely

4. They knew my torment and my heart's yearning
My sighs, and dashed away all hopes

5. They brought me close then pushed me away
And clothed my thoughts in censure and delusions

6. They saw I was captive to their love
So they cast me out and weighted me with shackles

7. They tore me into pieces of sickness
And altered all my states

8. They entice me with promises, but their promises
Were only ruin and tedium for me

9. They stole reason and sensibility from me
And haughtily tightened their bonds

10. They surrounded me from all sides, so because of them
I was laden with both words and deeds

11. They unjustly wounded me with the sword of arrogance
God suffice me, He of Majesty, All High

12. I and the night in their love both
Time silently slipped away

13. My heart and fire have a momentous affair
Each instant they rise fiercely high

14. My tears and rain have an abyss between them
Flowing from treasures of blindness

15. My concerns and fate a pounding misfortune
Its weight removes mountains

16. While I with them am the estranged in meaning
Estrangement stretched long over me because of them

17. What day will happiness come to me
With their pleasure in me, and I'll be rid of worries

18. I wish I knew, what is the joy of life
Except the sweetness of seeing them, beyond imagination

19. The duration of my life and living, by my life
Is not comparable to deeds

20. An apparition, a glance asleep, thoughts occurring
To the heart of the miserable, shuddering and trembling

21. One whose life is thus, what is there but
Unadulterated pain, and pregnant nights

22. O does of the meadow, have mercy
On a lover you left confused

23. With eyes you have bewitched people
And meaning you launched arrows

24. With those dark tresses, when they
Sway, men are entranced

25. How many tresses steadfastly
When ordained by fate, extend ropes

26. With the charm in you taking bodily form
You embodied charm itself

27. Bestow on me the favor of union
That heals a heart from the agony of estrangement

28. I am indeed lovesick for you
My masters, so I pose questions

29. Do not disregard the covenant of love, I
Am weakened, longing for you and sighing

30. Passion has overwhelmed me with violence
I saw in it delusions

31. I swear by affection I am a lover
Of them, I never wanted separation

32. My state after them and my state near them
A loyal heart, I left no sin

33. Whenever I said "O noble ones, help
Me with union," they said, surprised, "No!"

34. They ravaged my heart with angry havoc
Dragging swords in the field of my conscience

35. Whenever they approached my heart they marched away
And when they turned from me, they condemned me

36. Whenever they marched on any land
They dragged their train through my soul

37. My intention toward them, in my creed
Must improve matters

38. So from me, peace be upon them, even if
They severed my limbs from my heart