1. O you who has burdened my heart and made it suffer
Have mercy, for you have tortured my passionate heart

2. If he is deprived of seeing you, he will be content
With the appearance of your wavering specter

3. I swear by my passion for love, and my burning desire
And my anxiety and my kindling fervor

4. If you told me, “Seek me out with your soul,” I would not hesitate
In what you ordered, even if you doubted, then try me

5. My Master, is there any compassion in you that listens
To my tales, and the length of my complaints and reproaches?

6. You used to meet me with a smiling face
And today you meet me with a frowning face

7. I had no sin against you except love
So why do you shun me if I did no wrong?

8. Tell me by what means I could gain closeness
If you distance me for the sake of my proximity

9. By the life of your face, which is a rising full moon
And the beauty of your frame, which is like a mirage

10. And the bubbling of your eyes, which have surrendered
To the perfection of their charm, the eyes of coquetry

11. And the pure, radiant, sweet, pearly smile
Of your white lips, so soft and delicate

12. And your figure, slender like a rod, composed
Of dangerous charms of love, the most difficult ship

13. If I were not of a station that preserves
The ancient covenant, guarding my position

14. I would have rent my veil in passion for you and humbled myself
Shedding my dignity, plunging into your love blameworthy

15. My patience has betrayed me, and my stratagems are exhausted
My thoughts are divided, and my reason taken captive

16. I have indulged my heart and my impassioned fancies
And my status, dignity and position

17. That I fear the censurers will say
“This old man has become infatuated with that boy”

18. So look upon me with mercy, and revive me
And relieve my heart from painful love