1. She broke her vow, though it was right for it to be kept
My eyelids' illness from that was openly discussed

2. The weakness of vows is, for the weak-willed, a lesson
An ancient religion, not an innovation just established

3. If she makes a promise, her way is not to fulfill
Or if she swears an oath, her path is to break it

4. With my soul I'd elegize her waist's softness
If her heart ever softened or grieved for me one day

5. She always shows you the traits of complaint, yet
A drunken stupor's wont is not to last or perpetuate

6. The softness of her cloak, her cheeks' redness, her
Bewildering glance, her effeminate speech

7. An Arab woman hiding her beauty though if
Revealed, it would entrance any Roman who saw it thrice

8. The full moon in darkness, the startled oryx, the
Lush branch, the disheveled sand dune

9. Not idly assembled are the masterpieces of her beauty
Rather to toy with minds and confuse thoughts

10. She wears her adornments as a talisman for her beauty
Fearing eyes, who knows what they might generate

11. I saw a sun studded with stars, a crescent
Moon inscribed with Pleiades scattered

12. I drew swords but saw nothing like her glance
More given to shredding hearts and shredding shields

13. And I met terrors, but saw nothing like an abode's
Ruin or a pact of mine being renounced

14. No day of our parting was, for souls, as woeful
Or plentifully watered with flowing tears

15. O she to whom I sent my soul obedient
Yet she refused with her ghostly form to be brought to life

16. I complained openly even if you did not hear
What issues forth must exhale and breathe

17. What do I gain from foolishness, yearning
Flirting, and being coy and feminine?

18. You've made my body an inheritance for disease
And left my heart an inheritance obsessed with love

19. So I became, in youth, extremely obsessed with you
And in old age, overly delicate and deficient