1. This is the arena of love and separation
Where the forerunners of desires race

2. The meeting of loved ones is like the meeting of eyes
Between hearts and eyelids

3. Contemplate between the tents and ruins
The battlegrounds of passionate lovers

4. A tough, fair-skinned beauty who aims
Arrows that strike true without blinking

5. A white-skinned beauty acted like a brown-skinned
Who swayed from the tall, slender date palms

6. The branch adorned her neck like
The leaves adorned the tender twigs

7. If only the pigeons could bear it
They would shed their bracelets upon her

8. My heart served her beauty faithfully
Yet she cannot find the path of fidelity

9. What sun with its setting brings me poison
While the sun's poison is in its rising

10. Whenever she is reproached for capturing my heart
She signs for the tears to flow free

11. Whether I scatter upon my cheek
Or string together over pages

12. She laughed at the description of my passion
Not knowing tears are for longing

13. Before her face I had no knowledge
That the water of beauty is for burning

14. Is there any shelter from the darkness?
He is but a child not yet weaned from separation

15. It was so long I thought the stars in the horizon
Moved slowly in their orbits

16. And the dim twinkle grew as the falling
Embers quickened in the blaze

17. If only the dawn could help, I would give it
The hand of Joseph with the wine cup