1. My heart flutters under love's control
When it tries to find peace, it cannot whole

2. No matter how my tears try to wash away my agony
The blaze between my ribs burns like coal

3. My beloved, can I forget love for an hour
When past sorrows bar the heart their role?

4. Love filled my cup until it overflowed
Can a drinker of the cup of love stay sober and staid?

5. His heart is cruel, yet to each lover
How strange! His slender waist makes raids

6. While my heart is his, for his beauty's sake
Though events may toss it, it stays unafraid

7. Oh if only one day he would kindly unite us
For in love's sea, I sink like lead

8. No wonder! The meadow after wilting
When the rain pours, blossoms anew outlaid

9. I call when darkness shrouds, hoping that
The sun of contentment after setting, will rise arrayed

10. If you cannot show patience with our union
My breast too narrow to carry love's load

11. Be gentle, for I have no savior but my tears
My wakefulness is my friend, and darkness my abode

12. I chat with the star of the horizon, and the horizon is a meadow
Where narcissus and anemone their petals have showed

13. Is there no finality to estrangement?
No path from remoteness to nearness trode?

14. But if you don't know my love or taste my agony
You will come to taste, this I forebode

15. I will not curb passion to heal or soothe
We both stir under love's goads I laud