1. O gentle union and repulsion, and O
The sweetest mouth of the daughter of lowliness

2. I have not tasted it nor heard of one
Who has, but such is my guess

3. Yes, I fell in love with her without shyness
As if I had kissed her, though I did not

4. My kiss was not with her consent
Rather I stole it from her secretly without permission

5. O dark night that appeared over a moon
And a full moon that sets into darkness

6. And a branch bending over a soft sand dune
More wondrous than the dune or the branch

7. O perfect beauty, when
No creature matches perfect beauty

8. Your beauty alone, whose wonders
Are broader than my wit and mind

9. How much wronging me unjustly
And how much anguish for my love

10. Do you make lawful in your disdain my sickness
Or do you enjoy in passion my loss

11. Why do you not destroy me with kindness
From your oppressive wrong that does not build

12. Woe, woe to you oppressor, is it not enough
What you have already taken from me

13. We varied in love and blame
So in truth vary the Jinn

14. Grant me a greeting of kindness
Then mix what you granted with reproach