1. By the right of passion, never have I been free of passion
Yet my star in love has fallen

2. I hoped not for the union of one who wished my death
And my heart languished with separation and avoidance

3. In passion there's no wonder
If sorrow has struck me

4. The passionate bears fatigue
Incited by rapture

5. A brother of love ceaselessly cries, despairing
His heart drowning in tears, complaining of thirst

6. Excessive weeping made his skin into callouses and bones
No wonder he mixes tears with blood

7. Passion undid him
When it brought his ruin

8. If he cries he's entitled
There's no jest in his state

9. Say to the cheek's dearest, O lady of grace
She of radiant face, surpassing splendor

10. I complained of my passion - if you had pitied one who complained
And shed a tear - if tears could cure one who wept

11. Then you laughed heedlessly
With hearts uncaring

12. Playing absentmindedly
While the lover laments

13. You captivated my heart when you let flow my tears
And changed my demise into my wish

14. And when you saw my sickness you ignored my torment
You wondered at my illness and denied my murder

15. You acted, if my pain appeared,
When you kept me sleepless,

16. Surprised at my sickness
My health is the wonder

17. You veiled from my eyes so I despaired of life
The excess of the veil made me hopeless of remaining

18. But when I lifted the veil and was comforted by the vision
You angrily blamed me without cause and repeated rejection

19. When veils are lifted
Anger comes from you

20. Whenever the reason ends
A reason returns from you