1. I yearn for her, like a drinker craves wine
Sometimes for seconds, other times thirds

2. Three beauties robbed my heart of solace
And clothed me in a shabby, torn robe

3. The heaviness of her buttocks, the slenderness of her waist
The magic of her deadly, arousing eyes

4. I met your dark eyes as if
They were the sword of a tyrant, wantonly killing

5. Trust me in this estrangement, I swear
By your eyes I won't complain or break faith

6. Steadfast in the covenant between us
Even if time's vicissitudes change lovers

7. Time's circumstances turned me from you but
My heart never wavered, though my body wandered

8. The fruits of passion - who tastes them without love
Finds life's sweetness like bitter herbs

9. I broke patience's glass and sorrow inherited me
Woe to the stranger whom sorrow inherits from you

10. He who parted from you lies on sorrow's embers
Is there a dreamer searching for my passion?