1. Reproach not my anguish, O blamer
For my heart knew no rest, only delusion

2. Yearning has filled me with tenderness and passion
And infatuation and fervent love

3. How many clouds of tears have I sent forth
And filled the firmament with my sighing

4. I hoped for succor from unkind people
But only the noble aid the noble

5. Passion has wasted my existence, my beloved
O had I but known such crazed infatuation

6. Thoughts assail my heart, yet with that assault
How many blades have I drawn forth

7. My refusal of he who feigns affection
Is averse to return even a greeting

8. Insomnia has deprived my eyes, out of disdain
And the companion of ecstasy tastes no slumber

9. The sighs of lovers from every valley
Stream towards his doorstep like my tears

10. O my soul, in his sanctuary, rapturous ecstasies
Embracing carnations and chamomile

11. How much have I watered them with my tears
Teaching the clouds of sorrow harmony

12. Passion seizes minds should it incline
Nay, it plunders hearts when it inclines

13. How many times have we heard his words and grew drunk
And seen the aged wine as speech

14. And witnessed his beauty, there appeared from him
Meanings to dazzle imaginations

15. A star shone through the tresses of his night
Dispelling the darkness like vapor

16. From it shone lights for beholding eyes
Lights beyond the imagination's realm

17. His image a delicately sculpted sprig
Whose beauty disdains to be attained

18. Beauty has written of him on the silk of a branch
In everlasting coolness - so goodbye and peace

19. Oh, if only the nights would be just
We would complain of their injustice to the days

20. They have cast us far from the beloved's dwellings
And folded up long years in their scrolls

21. Our hearts have come to hate them, and so
They have taken vengeance upon our hearts

22. We, O Time, have donned the armor of patience for ages
Let the days therein end this strife

23. Perhaps the grievous crisis will pass
After matters reach their destined end