1. I complained, but my lowly state did not soften him,
A beloved whose beauty equals my state.

2. Avoiding me with the evasion of the reproached,
I became thin like threads.

3. He lightened my love sickness with gentle words,
Like innocent magic spells.

4. When he smiled, free from the captivity of dimples,
He bent shyly, with the shyness of the crescent moon.

5. With his softness and his gaze upon us,
We see the beauty of a gazelle and a fawn.

6. And a singing girl sways gracefully on a hill,
With the figure of a tender branch in balance.

7. The full moon returns to her with admiration
When she looks at it in perfection.

8. She is stingy with the hoped for union with me
When I had given her my soul and money.

9. I was tried, as my years turned white,
By the beloved of flirting and coquetry.

10. Wondrous beauty and kindness come from him,
But attaining the union with him is difficult.

11. My youth left me and my hair turned white,
And ceaseless melancholy accompanied me.

12. Alas for the days we harvested
With the good of his hand the fruits of union.

13. The loved ones and pleasures left me,
Alas for a life that passed me by.

14. If estrangement’s nights were long,
Then the nights of union with them were short.

15. My friend, bring it gently, enchantingly,
It comforts me more than the north wind.

16. When the armies of worries attack and retreat,
The armies of worries when they call for war.

17. Pass around its cups, melted gold,
Collars of pearls surround their necks.

18. Undo with them the fetters of worry from me,
And rise, be lively, more spirited than my vigor.

19. Turn the sun of the wine round, so we see
Days drunk like nights.

20. On roses as though cheeks of charmers were in them,
Brimming over with amorous gazes.

21. It says: Enjoy my generosity’s suns,
Rising for you before noon.

22. My days are short and the nights
Are like the guidance of imagination.

23. Spring has shown faces of beauty,
Graceful, wondrous in their beauty.

24. Its fingers strewed, charming,
With them the jewelry of gorgeous beauty.