1. Your gratitude no longer has a place in my heart,
The cup overflowed until it almost cracked.

2. For you every day there is a favor and kindness,
Out of pure affection, not pretense.

3. A person gives people the excess of his heart,
Yet I see you have given your whole heart.

4. I did not find in it an atom of sin,
Except that I found four times as much love.

5. You are the true loving claimant, as
You are the beloved, so you have joined them both together.

6. You have testified to me a thousand times, but
Two witnesses suffice for one claiming.

7. Beauty is not for one who loved an equal,
Beauty is for one who loved selflessly.

8. And for one who kept his affection steadfast,
Truly for one who broke pacts and wasted them.

9. I mean you, O one whose name I do not profess
Fearing the letter will fly to you hurriedly.

10. Before you I never sensed one who exceeded in passion,
Love, when times were straitened, you made them expansive.

11. If generosity and goodness of soul
Are not innate in a person, they will not become habit.

12. Far from it! An arrow cannot become a spear
No matter how tall it is or how branched it becomes.