1. The obedience of tears and the defiance of sleep
Have made me wear the garb of illness

2. So farewell to the prime of my youth
If only it had availed, even if greeted back

3. I swear by the Lord of the sandy hills
The hour of separation and the pouring tears

4. I would not have donned sorrow were it not for passion
No, no, my hearing pays no heed to blame

5. Are my cheeks gazelles or austere
And are those eyelids or a shower of arrows?

6. My glance is silent, with my look is my demise
So who is the afflicted and who is the assailant?

7. My tears have burned me though they are but water
Verily the water of tears is the fire of the inflamed

8. Would that I had gone, barely surviving, and kept
The night of union for the days of passion

9. O you who straightens the bent, is there a mender
And my misguided saying, is there a mender?

10. I visited while dawn was still dim, so a tear dried me
Crying for you, though you are a mouth that smiles

11. How often has your flock flashed like a sword from glances
And protected your people like a spear from a slim figure

12. The soberness of your charm intoxicated me while sober
Before wine, though they were both drunk

13. If my health could be restored from my sickness
The health of the eyelids would turn white from illness

14. O cupbearer, and a look from him suffices
What drinking requires of a cup or a goblet

15. A moon visited me from it in a wrap
Out of extreme shyness in a wrap

16. So make me travel exposed the pleasure of sipping
I do not like wine from under a skin

17. It orbited to clarify it quickly clearly
It flowed from rapture to the daughter of the year

18. A goblet is a rising sun, a perfect
Full moon roaming in the darkness of night

19. If he had served us a draft of his saliva
We would have sufficed, gloriously, without sin

20. I derive from him a staff in a mound
And I see his cheek in the darkness of the early dawn

21. Combining harmony and union
Combining life and cooing

22. O sharpness of the tooth, the solace has gone like an austere
Archer of arrows from it with arrows