1. When will the harbinger come near you
And let me know what delights me

2. For they said my heart would fly with joy
And I feel I'm completely flying

3. Our loved ones have been away so long
Since that short night parted us

4. Passion bore me what no old man
Could bear when passion lifts him

5. My days without you are years
I count them and my hours months

6. I stay up turning my eyes to the meteors
Observing what rises and what sets

7. With you I have a prisoner's patience
And a heart your midst has captive

8. I yearn with a camel-litter's yearning
And weep like a child weeps

9. My body is so gaunt it nearly hides
Many things happened while you were away

10. I lost my heart and still I have an era
To search for what I've lost within my heart

11. I mourned it but is life still good
When you mourn hearts inside breasts?

12. Love has shamed me so each glance
At me is a prince when my love appears

13. Beauties task me with returning my tears
To an eye that eyes me coldly

14. I wipe them though I've hidden naught
When the cheek's veil gets them on its back

15. I ask them though none but you can tell
When I appeal over it to an expert