1. Since you left, my eyes find no joy in the moon's radiance
Except when I remember you like one remembers a ruin.

2. I do not complain of the long nights out of sadness
Except for a night that passed quickly in your company.

3. Not to mention the sleepless, wakeful nights
Full of yearning for times gone by with you.

4. If only the dark locks and languid eyes were still joined!
If only the darkness of my heart and sight borrowed that darkness!

5. As for grief, a single instant summoned it,
As if grief and calamity came according to fate.

6. So from your glances I understood the meaning of love:
Conversation is understood through subtle allusion.

7. And my heart, since your features entered its horizons,
Is adorned with necklaces that do not reach the chest.

8. A fleeting loveliness that our eyes never fully savored,
Not exhausting its subtleties through our gazing.

9. Woe to your lips that now ache
With the throbbing of passions running wild through them.

10. Awake, never sleeping to keep watch
For the unsteady passions of one fixed on danger.

11. His days are not carefree with a returning loved one,
His nights have no joy with an awaited visitor.

12. For no greeting is a secret signal,
No visit an indication of ventured danger.

13. I remember her as if she had never been
Though passion is accustomed to memories.

14. Let whoever asks about me behold my state,
The clear reality that makes reports unnecessary.

15. The freshness of my youth was not long
And I see the lightning of grey hair striking my hairline

16. Before thirty, when the days of youth were still exuberant
And the branches of youth still unbroken.

17. Oh, it is a burning anguish in my heart
And my greying hair, sparks flying from it!

18. Let not the smug critic gloat in comfort
That I, aspirer to ambitions, am now in peril.

19. Are the winds ravaging the star of the earth?
Or is the eclipse for other than the sun and moon?

20. If my imprisonment in the cell is prolonged, no wonder -
Oblivion can grip the eyelids despite their wakefulness.

21. If the resolve of the wise father disappoints my hopes
Of relieving my pain, I cannot blame fate.

22. Why do sins whose grave transgressions are not mine
Burden me with their guilt and my own guilt?

23. I have never ceased being wary in my confidence,
Nor refused to avoid transgressions out of caution.

24. The noble Prophet, if angered, has a gentle nature
And is easily entreated and clement.

25. In him the dejected and afflicted find sympathy,
His beauty plainly evident, a towering cypress observed.

26. He humbles ambitions that have gone astray
With his wisdom, honored in himself and by others.

27. The minister of peace whom good fortune protected
From the ill omens of wars, with harvested insights.

28. His genius inspired by his experiences,
With no need for quick, unpondered thought.

29. How much serene insight his sleepless nights purchased!
The calm of true guidance was in those nights.

30. In his presence the turns of fate lost their terror,
And the spaniel slept undisturbed.

31. Delighting in the open spring, his dweller
Distracted from the soft fragrance of morning dew.

32. Unceasingly it brings forth plants from barren ground
And water flows from stone since he arrived.

33. I used to think myself and the star were paired,
So why am I now demoted to ashes?

34. When the boughs of my manners waved over horizons
A planted shoot of bountiful, ripening fruits.

35. No means or cause but noble lineage itself,
Which is a pure love, untainted.

36. It dispenses with praise, its beauty being proof itself,
The example that guides all beauties.

37. Recorded in books, its exhalations cannot be hidden
Except as the scent of musk is veiled in bottles.

38. Safe from the pretensions of every flashy scribe
whose script vaunts like the crowing of roosters.

39. The dewy garden laughs off their false hues
In the tear-filled eyes of flowers.

40. O delight of time, greeting while you live!
When you are gone, your life adorns legends and chronicles.

41. I have precedence in relying on your support,
And the first emigration in love is separation.

42. Why then have my aspirations faltered from their heights?
Why did my hopes fall short of attaining what they sought?

43. Is there any way for the water of reproach to reach me,
Sweetened by your reproach and waist?

44. I vowed to thank you and not forget to fulfill it
If your faces showed this to me.

45. Do not neglect me, for I did not ask you longingly
To restore my youth after fulfilling a pact.

46. And gain prosperity with sincere advice and favor,
Both priceless gifts not granted or learned.

47. I was ignorant so they were my failing,
With no excuse but that I am human.

48. Majesty is clad in overlooking faults -
Such is its splendor, and the splendor of beauty's veil.

49. You have the right of intercession which is never refused,
Unless the plea itself is not accepted as an excuse.

50. And wear the verdant blessings as your mantle,
A sanctum covering you from harms and strangers.

51. The bliss of an earthly paradise, if it passes,
You will delight in eternity in the gardens and rivers.