1. Who can save me from my beloved
Whose love is an ocean in which I've drowned, with no savior

2. Arrogant yet fawning over the fawning one
Burdened, with no escape

3. A spear whose wounds, when it pierces,
Pierce hearts with moments of love

4. So that his estrangement has kindled my heart
Like a Magian fire, when the abandoned fuel is added

5. His attributes have dazzled the minds of all creation
So those around him smile, protected

6. If you enjoy our torment, our hearts are in a paradise
Delighting in their torment

7. Disposing freely of the minds of all mankind
As if he were a supreme master in his actions

8. My liver is plundered by the scorpion sting of his cheek
And by his glance, which is like an unsheathed sword

9. Stop blaming me, O critic, for I
Have discarded blame behind my back

10. If Joseph’s beauty saw the loveliness I love
It would become his student in beauty

11. A gazelle drawing pure white swords from its eyelids
To be burnished and sharpened for slaughter