1. Let me portray the first sweetheart
With wounded eyes unadorned by kohl

2. That have not slept all night
Leave them to describe your beauty, for they

3. Are miserable, unsatisfied
With patience and suffering, did I

4. Carry you, if not reluctantly?
I envy the very shadows that

5. Cloak you, while I remain excluded
I say, be amidst the shadows and

6. Descend into my heart's embrace
For here lies a heart that never

7. Broke its word nor changed its love
It basks in your light submissively

8. Like a worshipper in a temple
O image of the one who gave passion

9. The key to my locked heart
In his love did my youth waste away

10. And the spring of my life fade
Alas! How much I squandered

11. On trivial things I now regret
The past is gone and even if I could

12. I would not turn back time
O image, how many nights

13. Did I weep and bewail you
Say, did I ever leave you

14. Unwatered by my tears?
Until you returned unfaithfully

15. And went away, lost, misleading
Show my tears plainly on

16. Your joyous, gleaming face
Let your eyes, shaken by

17. The plaints of this neglected stranger, weep
And those are the tears that now

18. Flow down while others gather
O image, how many meanings

19. Were borne for the reflective observer
Those soft lips, so gentle

20. Against the most delicate kiss
Whether they smiled when

21. Freed from frowning discontent
Or from the cruelty of one

22. Pampered among the delicate
Those eyes that shoot their arrows

23. To slay me utterly
How often they stirred the passions

24. Of the ardent, and drew tears from my heart