1. I bid you farewell as tears almost overwhelm
Between us the agony of love rages on

2. How can I have patience when you're far away
Remaining with no kin or hope to lean upon

3. An hour without you brought me misery
And I thought your return would swiftly dawn

4. But now you've been gone for my youth's lifespan
So the night of the afflicted is long and wan

5. Whether you forget me or yearn for me
I'll thank you - I cannot change what's foregone

6. I wish your specter would keep visiting me
Or sleep would close my eyes when night comes on

7. So I'd see you there, whom I love more than
Any fleeting pleasures that prolong and fawn

8. You enthralled me in love, made me forget the pain of pining
Lovers find respite in rapt entrancement drawn

9. You are the apple of my eye, my neighbor and passion
Nothing can replace you within my heart and soul

10. If gaining your favor means giving up all my limbs
I'd be bereft yet have given up nothing whole

11. I picture you embodied in every beauty
That I gaze on at length feeling wonder and awe

12. When I hear matchless loveliness mentioned
I'm certain it refers to none but you I saw

13. I refused to ask the roaming darkness about you
For when absent, messages cannot play a role

14. My charmer, with your allurement no cause remains
For me to live without you - no purpose or goal

15. None but you ever filled my sight or made my conscience
Feel that none but you are beautiful, nothing less

16. While others busy themselves with worldly matters
You alone ever occupy my mindfulness

17. You prove there is one singular brilliant Creator
Though for philosophers that's hard to extol

18. I sent my teardrops with my letter, knowing
No messenger can substitute the beloved's role

19. O you who blame loving, do not blame me
My anguish stems from hasty zeal untold

20. My heart rushed ahead of me into passion
And fell headlong - so blame me, for I was bold

21. I grieve the lost time of union - who knows
If separation like this will again unfold

22. If not for recalling its bliss I'd have died
From anguish - many are slain by yearning of old

23. An instant's embrace cannot make me forget her
Or thoughts of her that constantly swirl and hold

24. Some day a joyous hour may distract you from
A life made long by the bitterness of untold

25. So I'll wean my soul off fleeting pleasures
And after song comes wailing grief consoled

26. O doubter of truths, believe that love
Is a ghoul, indeed, as the wise of old have told

27. One who never tasted the pain of parting
Has no path to reproach time as it slips away

28. For each affliction has consolation
If you're rightly guided - solace comes into play

29. O pangs of longing, reside within my essence
I've lost the one I love - no more greetings can I say

30. My heart keeps pounding since you've fallen silent
Perhaps soon this anguish will drift away