1. Why do people rebuke me for yearning after you?
How can I be blamed when you are so alluring?

2. I awake from a tryst still drunk with desire,
Dizzy from the intoxicating glances of your eyes.

3. Your swaying is not unlike a supple bough,
Yet no other lover could evoke such passion in me.

4. Others may pine for the willowy sapling,
But my heart knows only you as its solace.

5. Your eyelashes hold such sorcery like Orion’s belt,
My passion for you has no defenses against them.

6. Your Turkish glances work their magic in the night,
As no sharpened sword ever could.

7. O you who disappoint lovers and break your word,
Will you continue to fail in keeping your promises?

8. You burdened me with the heaviest weight of love,
Making me too weak to even bear my own clothes.

9. You know my love for you and the agony it brings,
Though my patience and restraint belie the tempest within.

10. If only your heart was like mine, I would never protest,
And if my body was as slender as your waist, I’d be overjoyed.

11. What a remarkable beauty you are, the cynosure of all eyes,
Excelling in every admired attribute!

12. O hard-hearted one, learn tenderness from your stature,
Perhaps you'll soften and become kind.

13. My prince, your gaze reigns despotically over me,
With eyebrows impervious to entreaty.

14. Another leads me by the hand while you stand aloof,
Deaf to complaint, your cheek lifted disdainfully.

15. Still I hope to meet your downcast eyes,
That might dispel the darkness surrounding me.

16. False is he who claimed perfection of beauty
Resided only in Joseph, for it dwells abundantly in you.

17. Shall I shun you for fear of scandal
When I've striven beyond limit to avoid you already?

18. The least I can say is you deny me,
Though none knows my love for you better than you.