1. When did my anguish and nightingales offer relief,
Through gossip or a reproaching advisor?

2. For desire alone, when I sought aid,
Showed my heart's insincere intention.

3. As if a youthful breeze with charm caressed
The beloved of youth and charm, so he swayed,

4. Staggering in his cloak of beauty, his stature,
Wavering like the undulating tattoo.

5. When he glanced with his eyes I said to his eyelids,
"Did an absent eye or coquetry release you?"

6. It was merely a sly, fleeting wink
That secretly battled my eyes.

7. That my soul survived after his abandonment
Proves that love is not lethal.

8. How often, when I unpacked my burdens,
And my inspirations roamed your heights,

9. Did someone say: "Are you he whose stars
Became necklaces worn by the noble suns?"

10. By God, morals, if you wish, produce
Eloquence from the stupidity of fools.

11. Fate strove to destroy me, but when
You sustained me, my virtues burgeoned.

12. So here I am, halfway between gratefulness
And bitterness—your presence is enough.

13. That feast has come to you of which you are the feast,
Alighting auspiciously in your happy home,

14. Yearning has emaciated it until
It became a wisp, like a palm frond.