1. You have possessed my mind, my gaze, and my hearing,
My soul, my insides, and all of me entirely.

2. You have confused me in the splendor of your beauty,
So I do not know, in the sea of passion, where is my place.

3. And you have commanded me not to reveal your secret,
So my overflowing tears betray what I conceal.

4. When my patience was spent and my endurance thin,
And sleep left me and my bed was deprived,

5. I complained to the judge of love, and said "my loves
Have abandoned me," and they said "you pretend love."

6. Yet I have witnesses of melancholy and sorrow
To support my claim when I come to profess.

7. My wakefulness, longing, gloom, agony and ardour,
My fervour, my illness, my pallor and my tears.

8. How strange that I yearn for them
And ask longingly about them when they are with me!

9. My eyes shed blood while they are in their darkness
And my heart complains though they are between my ribs.