1. You possess me
My soul cannot possess

2. It is more obedient to you
Than a subject to a king

3. If you command, it obeys, and if
You call it, it yearns

4. You did not hide your radiance
In it are jewels that dazzle

5. You destroy me, my desire
Apart from you, destruction upon destruction

6. If you are distant, you burn me
And if you are near, you unravel me

7. If I am patient, I cannot endure
And if I surrender, you complete me

8. And if I seek in secret
You destroy me among my people

9. I am a bird whose ambition
Is liberation from this bondage

10. The life of seclusion has cleared
Oh heart, so ask to be left

11. And take us on the path of those
Who went freely and tread

12. He who sleeps grateful
Is not like one who sleeps complaining

13. So take off the garb of your
Weary body for the sake of the lovers

14. And seize the opportunity
Before you miss it and make amends

15. This arriving spring
Brings shackles of hail

16. It adorns the hillsides with
Locks of hair never combed

17. And it hangs from their necks
Necklaces of pearls woven

18. As if it were, with them
Our gathering in the highest heaven

19. The narcissus lines up so straight
Like the formation of kings

20. Emerald in silver
Gold that was never melted

21. The lover gazes with eyes
Tearful with longing

22. The roses in their drunkenness
Lean on the branches

23. The morning breeze holds
The train of his dress in its fist

24. Like the gown of a virgin
If I said to her, turn to me

25. The river flows from the hand
Of the breeze like untied braids

26. And the branches around it
Are tokens of one immersed in love

27. It casts the nets of shade
And catches the fish of imagination

28. The partridges laugh
With a smile never laughed before

29. The jasmine’s bitterness is known
To the tender youth

30. The birds sing lyrically
Infatuated and disturbed

31. In a garden as if describing
The Prince Munjik’s estate

32. He who is confused by its description
Is clever and intelligent

33. An ocean in which like ships
Sailing like stars

34. Eyes see in it
Seas like ponds

35. It has palms that grasp
Untouched, ungrasping

36. They ravage its wealth
Ravaging without any goods

37. Its thoughts guided us
And traversed the lands of Gazeer

38. Every house contains
Daughters of Kisra the king

39. Swaying coquettishly
Baring cleavage loose and bare

40. Pearls fill my hearing
And the cavity of my jaws

41. You captured the pillar of my master
I sacrifice myself for your kingdom

42. You attained all that was missed
And compensated all loss

43. To you belong the heights, and about
Virtue, there is no doubt