1. By my life! I have tasted love and found it
Difficult within, easy without.

2. I donned sorrow when I became truthful in love -
So it has become my sole preoccupation.

3. The flames of grief blaze between my ribs
Yet my tears flow not, nor does my heart find peace.

4. I glimpsed with my heart the one who is all heart -
So I saw my Master, who cannot be equaled.

5. They blamed me and said, "You have abandoned reason."
But did they ever find a lover who had reason?

6. The sweetness of your mention in my speech and silence -
So my heart is never devoid of your image.

7. Sweet upon my hearing is all your discourse,
Though there may be therein blame and rebuke.

8. If my eyes united with a glimpse of you
Death and murder would be sweet for their sake.

9. Perhaps too soon I sing love's praises -
For separation oft comes after union.

10. You have the right, if you draw me near or distance me,
For to draw me near, you know best my condition.