1. My longing for you stirs no memory within
But adds to my torment and inner turmoil

2. The sweet thought of you is joyful company
I'm not inclined from it, awake or dreaming

3. And I remember not to find peace therein
But because remembrance is for you, not me

4. So you have all honor from me even if
You spurn me and I only humiliation

5. You never helped a lover in passion or
Revived one felled by the sword of separation

6. You persist in avoiding one who persists
And never make just amends for wronging another

7. A mole on a fair cheek is deemed beautiful
How many lives would be given for your moles!

8. Leave off, friend, from smooth cheeked gardens, for I
Do not wish blooms obtained through trickery

9. See the beauty of the doe's dark mole which
Sprinkled earth with dew like a pouring cloud

10. If you but read the writing on his brow
You'd not blame me for loving him at all

11. Cheeks without down are graced by
The Beloved's beauty spot residents

12. Think me not cheap if I bow to my love
For passion itself can render the noble base

13. I am averse, gaunt with sunken cheeks
Balanced in stature, no castle or anklet

14. When he sways, branches shy from his motions
When he sings, gazelles flee in terror

15. Life is but the love of one I love
Who delighted my downcast gaze beyond all other allure

16. He beautifies with kindness and traces the
Line of beauty for one he loves completely

17. His cheek yields roses of heavy dew
His brilliance, necklaces like a chain

18. With half-shut drunken eyes he fells us
With a languid glance in an instant

19. The wind makes him sway and then spreads him out
Bouncing him between softness and tremors

20. He's not caused an unbroken soul to break
Nor bent an unbending rod.

21. Yet his gait made the tears flow
And he walked with a proud, wounded pace

22. If not for the joy of seeing him again
None would have sipped of the bitter cups.