1. Why do the camels yearn so much
As if missing a companion?

2. Sorrow has weighed them down, else if able
They wouldn't bear the sigh of a sad heart

3. They long for the meadows - and how many lovers
Yearn just like them for the meadows

4. So whoever complains of the ugliness of parting, toiling
I only complain of the beautiful eyes

5. Frail ones I have no strength over
Smiles that made the eyes weep

6. I would have watered the hot earth to grow
Neither moons nor branches

7. By my father white-faced friendship if it
Copied its eloquent rhythm

8. It insists or relents at times but how nice
That insistence and relenting

9. And I took from her hair chains
For a heart crazed by them

10. Like the firmness of a backbone and blossoming smiles
A face like the sun and soft as a twig

11. By the languid glances I have no
Solace - though they honor the right

12. Stingy with beauty she formed my nature
So I became, pining for her, a pining man

13. She sways her spear-straight stature but never
Bent, save my heart it pierced with yearning

14. Alas leave me be from discourses of love
For discourse awakens passions

15. We halt the camels, and the travelers hurry
Crying from the distance, while the distance complains

16. We spur them on with sighs, but no - she
Outpaces the driver and guides

17. How can she not survive the far horizon
When she is borne by my zeal?

18. Pulled by longing and brightened by sorrow
It left her to tug the wilderness

19. She thinks my sea of tears is dry
No - by Him who made her a ship!

20. Or that the likes of the precious is possible
Glory - does he think it can be?