1. Not everyone who fills eyes with beauty
Is one who fills hearts with perfection

2. And the fellow lover, passionate with yearning, whom
Even the lion takes the gazelle as his beloved

3. O beauty, I loved in you a trait
I hope for no other's union but yours

4. May God increase you in nobility and my certainty
Of perfection, when I see the crescent moon

5. I gathered in you, O beauty, noble qualities
The impossible desires praise from them

6. Or isn't in you that determination which one day
Made light of mountains

7. From you, words are preceded by deeds, whenever
Words were preceded by deeds among people

8. O son of one who made the examples fall short
That we see anyone like him

9. Son of the pole of the age in absolute justice
Time has not shown his equal anytime

10. I do not wish to describe what you are in
I cannot bear this arena

11. Neither gratitude nor thanks for what I cherished
Of affection for a friend, whom I see bound to your name

12. And time continues reciting thereof
Thus, thus and not otherwise, or it would perish