1. The imagination's link to the horizons is a meeting
If only slumber could rule my eyes

2. Oh you who migrated from love though innocent
Wait, for your abandonment and death are equal

3. Your glance seduced my heart so it cracked
And sorrows befell souls from eyes

4. It is a look, so favor me with its sister
For wine from the pain of veil is cure

5. I am folded of heart from you though scorched
If not for tears awakening the dormant ashes

6. Neither do you have mercy nor does love's fire
Subside, and the soul has no solace from you

7. So look at me and you will find the image of a specter
In whom no life remains except a breath

8. The tender branches wept for me in their sweetness
And wept over me with their dew the boughs

9. The zephyr's messengers told of my agony
So each branch inclined toward it listening

10. A gazelle my love transmitted by the doves from morning breeze
So poets and songstresses poured to it

11. In each youth's heart latent passion abides
And in each beauty's charm haughtiness

12. So cease your probing, oh doctor, for my malady
Is love, and each soul has its own disease

13. The agony of passion is a delight my soul lives by
If you but knew the remedy for my condition

14. Yet in my frenzy is a pride such that
Lions recoil from its spear points in dread

15. A gazelle, prosperity inclines to her pace
Beneath the lofty sands, and her speech a gesture

16. She glanced with languishing eyes, and if her glance
Had power, it would have caused even rock to shed water

17. Beauty ruled for her whatever she chose
So she controlled people however she wished

18. She grew angry with me, though I had done no wrong
And perhaps the lover bears the blame though innocent

19. Slanderers circled her, so their words
Rang pleasantly and quietly in her hearing

20. If not for gossip, no hostility would have occurred
Between a man and his brother after affection

21. O fairest of the radiant moons, what means
Can bring me close, for I have no intercessors

22. Be generous with me, even with a false promise
For a promise bears hope and wish

23. And trust in keeping the secret, for my lips
Are a seal, and my heart the vessel

24. Fear not the words of the backbiters, for they
Spoke well when they did evil

25. They claimed you a sun that gleams with no darkness
And in my view their words are pure white

26. Why then dread the visit, now that the chiefs
Are safe from your appearance in the dark night?

27. It was an error of judgement on their part
That brought benefit - fools act this way

28. The schemes of a fool are to harm his conscience
And to foil his schemes is to please him

29. People are similar, though opinions
Separated them in rank and station

30. A soul, if virtuous, is purified, but if
Devoid of wisdom, whims toy with it

31. If not for differences among men
There would be no chiefs or commons

32. I have tested people in their aspects
And wearied, until weariness wearied me

33. If friendship is a hollow pretense
Then faithfulness is ostentation and show

34. How to trust the protection of a companion
When a black dot lies in each heart?

35. Had the world sincere affection
No estrangement would come between intimates

36. So shake off your hands from this age and its people
For the effort to seek a friend is vain