1. A new, more intense love
Than all my past passions

2. I met it yesterday unbidden
As if it were a dream in sleep

3. I sipped its essence from its face
Making it my love's wine

4. A face of light, were it to appear
At night, we'd not know darkness

5. O reproacher, do not blame me
My heart defies blame

6. Attempt not to reform a heart
In love, objectives fade

7. No day passed but in love
No struggle against ecstasy

8. Who has spoken poetry like mine
Who from my ode stole unpermitted

9. Never was the day I'd repent
Of delighting my eye with the forbidden

10. Nor will God see me a day
When I live without sin

11. Our life we've devoted to passion
And heartache with adversities

12. Peace is best, this I say
The agony of love lies in discord

13. If we seek an arbitrator
He knows not the work of advocacy

14. Justice in love is lost, so leave
Every path to litigation

15. And look upon the betrayal of flirts
From the age of Seth to the age of Ham

16. Eve, our mother, answer me
For with betrayal Adam persisted

17. From a garden he flew to a land
With food, but no abundance

18. O singular beauty, O boon companion
From whose lips passion I sipped

19. The nights never taught me
Nor the days

20. For I made the nights drink
From these illusions

21. The cupbearer's wounds bleed
So let the days drink