1. Say to the one who insisted on parting from me
That my heart never ceased loving you for an hour

2. Your beautiful image has been engraved
In my mind's eye - none other but your image

3. So if my eyelids match my mind's eye
They may find some rest from yearning for you

4. My beloved, why this estrangement, who is this one
Who has taken you away from visiting me?

5. Your absence was caused by a preoccupying affair
I have guessed what has distracted you

6. You have busied yourself with the alluring gazelle
Who dwells near you, whose beauty has captivated you

7. He has kindled the fire of love in your heart
With a glance, his eyelids revealed his desire for you

8. And the sickness of his eyelids has crept
Into you, a sickness from which your cure has fled

9. The fire of love has seared my heart because of you
So suffer, by it, a fire by which it has seared you

10. O permanence of separation, can you not
Quench your morning thirst by sending him to me

11. I hope to see you again, so complete your love
And be, for me, continuous in your love

12. O comfort of the heart away from its love
Go away, for my heart has never desired you

13. And O my heart, do not wander
In love of him until you meet your demise

14. You were tormented by love, and so love
Became your food, so that you do not care for your health

15. And you have folded up love - none but the one
Whose love has folded you up knew it

16. My body, you have become emaciated - so you
Have become a specter; your strength cannot be seen

17. Do not complain of weakness, for I am a man
Who can make you energetic and strengthen your power

18. And O my talk in the name of my love, do not be
As you were, nor the one whose love has bent you