1. O image of beauty that rose
With the sun in threads of radiance

2. Why does the beauty of your face not
Incline to my passionate love, O Solomon?

3. When I found your love, it stirred me
And I knew your love was spiritual

4. Do not deny an illness you endowed me with
For with the sickness of your glance, my body is sick

5. How can I conceal love for a honey-lipped one
Revealed by my secrets and declarations?

6. A human memory of her love
A sprite yearning has possessed me

7. And indeed a passion stirs me for her
That cannot be ransomed even with my soul

8. O you who repay me with evil
Is this the reward for my devotion?

9. By your love I swore, and nothing else,
Except that truth was my way

10. Neither life’s sweetness delighted me, nor
Did thoughts cross my drowsy eyelids

11. Until I see our union bringing us together
The human of your eye, the goal of my humanity