1. Earnestly, earnestly, with this mixture of departure
And remoteness, not remoteness, of the beloved friend

2. O my beloved! The north wind is a messenger
To you from me, or youth and acceptance

3. My night on you is long, and for me
My short night with you is long

4. Whether you incline or tire, I
Have not tired of you, though others are bored

5. Or if your state changes, mine
Regarding love of you does not change

6. My state was created in love of you
It is my fervor, my flowing tears

7. They tossed my frightened heart, and said
It tossed and turned, with no changing

8. The slanderer slandered, the faultfinder found faults
The blamer blamed, the complainer complained

9. I have agony in them, sadness flows
And fatal passion, tears pouring down

10. And anguish, devotion, and love
And sighing, moaning, and wailing

11. O beautiful ones, return to me, beautiful one, but
No matter what the beautiful one does, it is beautiful

12. Some hot agony doubted
The ardency did not fit it, yet I am all agony

13. They faulted us for your nearness, they deprived us
That my fervor for you have justification

14. They spread sorrow in the lands, and here are
Sorrows that have been forced upon me

15. If the burdens have lightened, I still
Have the heavy burden of love's passion

16. Whenever the riding beast inclines with me
I call out, "Incline!" For I have inclining wings

17. Ruin, ruin! Either, either!
Since the slanderer refused, then the trunk, the trunk!

18. They stopped at the abode and awakened
This is their abode, and these are the hills

19. I have a question for the abode and investigating
How many days, O questioner, with no answerer?

20. Standing, I recited to the messenger, "Astray!"
Is there a guide, and where is my guide from me?