1. We came with feelings and insights
And divided fortunes among lovers

2. How I wish my share of love was with lovers
If only we could meet in passion like I have met

3. My cunning in love is not what I wish
The cunning of the wise in livelihoods

4. If a lover were rewarded for intense longing
I would be rewarded abundantly for my passions

5. A girl whom a stranger increased in nothing
But beauty through refined character

6. I tasted the sweet and bitter from her
The pleasure of love in varying tastes

7. I made an appointment when we would meet
She avoided me saying why meet

8. I said it's not so with covenants, she said
Wanton women have no pact

9. My leanness softened her and stirred her
A quick glance acted as intermediary