1. Patience, my beautiful patience, it is time for you to leave
For after my darling, I have no rest

2. Oh, my grief, be my companion, for her flashing sword of the past has killed me
Her face has made my days and nights dark

3. She has folded the tents and left lightly
Gently, yet under them lies a heavy mountain

4. I see the astrologer's words about Suhail are weak
They hold no proof for me

5. How often has the smoothness of her brow
In its glow outlived raging grief

6. When have slanderers accused her fawn eyes?
Every dove among them coos

7. I wish I could change your face for hers
But kohl has avoided your glances

8. And, oh gentle morning breeze, I am weak
Ill or lovelorn from her sight

9. Describe my longing for her and my body, worn thin
As if torrents have washed its muscles away

10. I hope she will heal me with a union
That will banish the strange pain

11. He who knows her aversion is ignorant
And he who knows her ignorant, a fool

12. When she unites to then abandon me
Each of her days a new farewell

13. Why, oh Laila, do I speak?
Stingy with your image and mere dreams the stingiest miser

14. Your impossible loyalty has stolen my sleep
So my hopes of your phantom are impossible