1. You sleep, unaware of the night of passion,
And what wakefulness does to the lovesick, restless one.

2. Ask about my night's vigil, whoever saw that affliction,
For I spent the night in torment and hardship.

3. I endured desire until, as the millstone turns,
I made my heart for it a fixed pole.

4. An ignorant woman who knows not the taste of love,
Yet she left me the most knowledgeable man of love.

5. She set upon my heart a watcher and observer,
So nothing can convey to my heart but her.

6. I used to complain of her rebukes and reprimands,
But she pained me with reproach and blame.

7. I thirst, denied access to you,
As the wanderer thirsts for cool, fresh water.

8. And she says in ignorance, “If only she
Would encounter what I face of effort and hardship!”

9. I said to her, “I do not wish to befall her
My afflictions, but some of the love I have.”

10. By my life! If the one brought near you
Is of sincere passion, I deserve nearness.

11. I will tend, though I earned no tenderness from you,
And bring blame upon myself, though I am not to blame.