1. You busy yourself all day with coquetry
And sleep through the night, heedless of me

2. You did not hold me close in the dark of night
As if meeting me weighs heavily on you

3. Where are the nights when you were their radiance
And turned to me as if lost in their gloom

4. I grieve for our youthful days, my sweet
When adornment and ardent love abounded

5. Despite your beauty, its charm eludes me
As life speeds on and allure starts to fade

6. Return to my heart innocent as a girl
For yearning is an eye thirsty for its spring

7. My being is honey if you taste its springs
For you, had you known the flowing honey

8. Happiest are moments when your eyes
Assail my heart with arrows and slay me

9. Return, for my heart is parched with estrangement
And patience from absence of loved ones is frail

10. Were you to leave but for an instant
My anguish overflows, for reason fails

11. Your sweet rebellion, if but for delight
Between us, its actions would not shame

12. By God, come to me exultant in meeting
For I am sickly and restless without you

13. Draw close, warming me with ardent longing
For the cold of weakened passions bites deep

14. You owe it to me to respond, for I
Your husband, hope my love is in your heart

15. Leave me not waiting like a winter sun
That rises high but sheds no warmth below

16. A loving husband finds his sole distraction
In death, for it grants no delay

17. Know that if you long spurn passion’s call
The heart’s resolve will fade and strength decay

18. Your rejection has sown decay in my soul
And my head with hoary hair is all ashimmer

19. I left you sickly, but you returned
Making excuses, your eyes downcast

20. You called me back to rekindled love
Sorrow and regret writhing within you

21. No, I’ll not return appeased to your love
For life is gone, your disdain has undone me

22. Return to your love, for our tryst is delayed
While I, by death’s sword, am made desolate