1. How strange that we met
In a house that became the cradle of art

2. A young writer intoxicated by love songs
Say what you will of this sly man

3. His passion he thought transient infatuation
Yet old age comes with certain knowledge

4. It blazed in my ribs becoming fire
My head was crowned by her bewitching smile

5. I dismissed love from my heart but lost
My strength in the presence of obvious sorcery

6. Eyes seduced me in my life
And got what they wanted of my infatuation

7. A girl I see in my fantasies
And some guess blamed with certainty

8. I saw her beauty and the night shone
Then my tears rained in my eyes

9. Ask me of her dwellings, ask me
For when I found her my eyes dwelled there

10. They gave me seeking attainment
They gave me seeking love, they gave me

11. With every beauty my heart is indebted
May God prolong my life in debt

12. The condition of the academy is beautiful
In it what you wish of art treasures

13. In it a beauty who left for my heart
Nothing but agony and hot tears

14. Leila it's not enough my torment
She afflicted me with the remedies of madness

15. She thinks I'm a sensible man
Whose intellect counters the spell of eyes

16. She did not know I am love-struck
My intellect surpasses all guesses

17. I have become from my fervor ignorant
So she doesn't know my left from my right

18. I sought mercy from her but she said
In love, oh mother, have mercy on me