1. Have we known the sun to grow weary,
Or seen the full moon tire of wandering?

2. Does desire trouble the shepherd's staff?
Or does love make the gazelle of the desert languish?

3. It broke conventions, revealing an image
That gathered beauty and celebrated.

4. The page is colored with the water of youth,
The cheek saturated with the dye of shyness.

5. Who can blame me if I lose my wits for him
Who forgot our pact if I should return?

6. My killer, faulting me for my surrender -
Would that I knew: was my surrender allowed?

7. You who preen, proud of your finery,
You most deserve a beauty-mark, so spot yourself!

8. If you indulge, you have a clear excuse:
Whoever beauty aids is readily excused.

9. The sickness that afflicted me
Was health, in that state, to suffer so.

10. When his father took ill, hopes for him
Spoke - and he acted.

11. A king who enjoyed the fruits of life through him
Wherever the safe reached those in peril.

12. The benefactor did well by us, so he deserved
Just as the evildoer earned his lot.

13. His every righteous deed was exemplary,
While the deeds of those against him were flimsy.

14. Among his envious rivals are plenty
Who surpass the sword in slander.

15. O scions of Jahwar, through you the world
Regained its finest days after their loss.

16. For it's through your mediation, truly,
That beauty attained the seal of power.

17. We enjoy your blessings in full blossom,
Renewing the promise of the spring to come.

18. December was sweet for us during it,
As though the sun concluded its pregnancy there.

19. Your virtues have bloomed, so they smile
Like the smile of a rose with lustrous pearls.

20. O sea! However much you overflow
With dew, the sea is replenished by it!

21. What single fault have we found in you
That an eye would fear once merit is complete?

22. Nobility that dispenses with praise,
Just as kohl dispenses with more kohl!

23. I'm a plant on the soil of the sublime - if
You cease to water me, I will wither.

24. I have a reputation, through your gifts to me,
That vexes the envious if ever it wavers.

25. So let him who disparages a gentleman's way,
Taught by the conduct of earlier men, die of disease!

26. Take to heart the wisdom from what they say:
Embrace health, and endeavor will embrace you.

27. Your favors came to me, offering themselves -
I did not plot to gain them by tricks.

28. I accepted the hand from one whose hand
Time and again is the locus of kisses.

29. We have all conveyed what we wished,
So accomplish the ultimate of every wish!

30. And if fate desires you, then grant consent,
And when you desire fortunes, then attain them!