1. That alluring beauty has broken resolve,
And hearts have failed to resist his passion.

2. Patience is lost to fervent desire;
Reason bewildered, wisdom perplexed.

3. O my lovely one, nights have adorned you,
And my love for you grows despite your silver hair.

4. Beauties rested upon you until
Troubles have scattered them from me and you.

5. Long have I trained your charming conceit
While time withered, barren and sere;

6. With you clouds lumbered,
Their breezes sifted by the south wind’s choose.

7. Your bounty runs from my tearful eyes,
Once instruments of pride, now humbled.

8. You gentled my heart, itself a cross.
I blame myself: when have I seen

9. A tear in my swollen eyes not shed for you?
You are not the only one nights have ruined:

10. Time ruins everything we cherish!
O visitor the thrush greeted,

11. Its song pierced a heart time had destroyed.
If your person lasts, let the melody

12. Whisper forever inside my breast!
Had I resolved to forget all trace of you

13. Naught but longing would remain!
Reproach me not: if I love others now

14. Blame the soul still obsessed with you!
Noble refined; a glorious height

15. No flaws could ever debase!
Time has nurtured; pure, sublime:

16. A treasure precious, guarded, secure.
To you my ribs stretch forth glory and link

17. With fragrant soil and the bestoirs ripe and rich,
Realms enclosed, ringed all around

18. By awe, so tall none dare come nigh.
You will find me as we knew before:

19. Candid of soul: none shares my heart but you!
Time has ripened and I've weathered, too;

20. It was lush once; now parched wastes I rove!
From that era of bliss showers of love and affection

21. Fell upon eyes the years since have starved.
Bring me near! Distance has tried my patience;

22. Unite this dawn and dusk grown cold!
If you find me stout of heart, inside burns

23. Ember and flame nothing survives!
How can I pledge my heart's devotion

24. When you watch above my love's excess?
Cheap to me the one my desire adorns:

25. For my passion would blanch strands still black!
Wisdom has lowered my smile’s pretentions:

26. For who marvels at wonders anymore?
And time has armored me for anything

27. Fate has in store behind whichever door!
I've tasted the world so thoroughly

28. I sense beneath surfaces and facades.
None knows for what or why I care—