1. You allowed reunion after estrangement, O Beauty
And that resentment, anxiety and sadness went away

2. And you, my time, when you brought it
You gave me favors the like of which time has never given

3. Whatever sin of yours is past, is forgiven
No fault remains with you, O time

4. And you, O branch, when you touched my homeland
It excelled the Pleiades, that homeland

5. Let me kiss the slipper that trod
My dwellings, by God my house has become too narrow for me

6. And allow my gaze freedom, for passion has
Lions, when they see their cubs they become timid

7. And the party of love are folk whose chief
In love is a child, yet his resolve is weak

8. By God, by God, O light of eyes, you have
Revived a heart in me that is all yearning

9. Be as you wish, for I am enamored of you
In your love all sorrow is the same to me

10. You are the sought and I have no patience without you
While my heart in the depths of passion is held captive

11. I can never be diverted from love ever
And how can one divert a love-smitten youth?

12. What can I do with a watcher who never leaves him
Awake, whom no cycle of days makes him sleep?

13. He sees and hears from me everything
That youthful folly utters or that passion reveals

14. I fear him always, though lovers when
They fear, as has been said, afterwards feel safe

15. And it has often been said, describing the watcher,
By the rules of love, he is a worthless dog

16. Little wonder that a gazelle he watches
Should be paired with a dog, accursed luck!

17. Evil is the watcher! In every limb he has
An eye, in every member towards us an ear

18. He says "What is it you love of his beauty?"
I said "It suffices you that he is beautiful"

19. If fate were fair, it would bring him near and drive it away
But, by the right of love, time was not fair