1. How long will you keep tormenting me, enticing me,
While I keep yielding, keep humbling myself?

2. You persisted in causing me distress that doesn’t cease,
So my heart burns with suppressed anger, writhing.

3. You left me awake through the night to graze among the stars,
While you were distracted from me, engaged elsewhere.

4. No wonder my eyes shed their tears generously
When the one I love is stingy granting union.

5. This resentment of yours has become your nature—
If only one day you would soften and be gentle!

6. You aim from under your dark lashes a white glance
At everyone you glance toward, so you kill them.

7. There’s not a moment but you brandish a blade
That strikes down whoever loves you dead.

8. So go along with the judgment of Time, which
Often does wrong, then feels remorse and rights itself.

9.
Patience has helped me before now, so if

10. This aloofness of yours toward me persists, it will be foiled.
The best people ever, when the going

11. Gets tough, get going and circumstances change.
How I’ve wearied of my critic, and he of me!

12. I disobeyed those who blamed me for loving you.
Our days pass folded up, with no link between us,

13. Spread out, while estrangement persists, undispelled.
I see your beauty has turned its back for a time,

14. But soon, in just a little while, it will be stripped away.
So treat me kindly while you still can,