1. Deafened, I hunt aimlessly, abstractedly,
Curing the love-sick or a young hunter.

2. I shot without knowing your meaning, so forgive me.
O beauty, I shot without taking aim.

3. In the blink of an eye what takes place
Is the hunting of hearts, so leave the prey or hunt me.

4. Before youth reaches its peak
The young man perishes between vigor and grace.

5. Grace made of carved marble, adorned
By the magic of pearls without complication.

6. How graceful the neck of an unemployed beauty,
Whose page is generous without affectation.

7. What good is it to waste away,
Frustrated in love through toil and sleeplessness?

8. Let him enjoy a carefree life
Oblivious to the beauty of fine garments.

9. Or bring him close to reap the fruit of passion
From what you have without reserve or limits.

10. If your rejection implies consent, arouse hope
After it, be sparing of consent or augment it.

11. If fortune smiled, you’d find a gentle man
To live out his days with you in wedded bliss,

12. Everything he owns pledged to you,
And everything sacrificed for you to annihilate.

13. Have the virgins of Jinn taught you what they mastered
Of the charms you destroyed, O my longlasting obsessions?

14. To you I surrendered my heart, forgetting my wiles,
Offering my allegiance above all understanding.

15. Return to your heavenly throne and listen
To the heart's plea in my most painful lyric.