1. When the dove coos,
The lover weeps for love's ache,

2. Yearning, oh how yearning!
The dove coos, a dove.

3. O you who left home, but
My heart remains in place.

4. You deemed my love forbidden, so make it permitted,
For what reason is it banned?

5. If my eyes were your paradise,
Then in them lies agony.

6. Or if your lips were lightning,
Then my eyelids are clouds.

7. Why do I sleepless lie
When darkness falls?

8. Sleep evades my eyes
Or reproach my ears.

9. Visit me, even if but a specter,
For where is slumber from me?

10. If not for your beauty
Wine would not tempt me.

11. Nor would I have harbored
A love hidden by the veil.

12. God in me, for I have been truthful
To the lover, though blamed.

13. You shook your neck like a spear
And my eyelids bled from it.

14. Over your eyes an arch
With lids as arrows.

15. Your only aim is
To kill me, with farewell.

16. By God, you'll get naught from me,
Though the King helps you.

17. The secret of his people is
The letters Noon, Jeem and Laam.

18. He appeared a new crescent, though
His father was a full moon.

19. Good tidings to kings of a king
Whose time is a young lad.

20. To the peak of glories,
His independence and weaning.

21. A branch to Dhawha's kingdom,
At which people rejoice.

22. Nay, a stream from springs
With which all pains are cured.