1. O your soft cheeks
Seething with radiance

2. And your sleepy eyelids
Where love has trodden

3. O my remedy .. and my yearning
How worthy you are from Muna

4. How worthy you are in passion
To be acquired from maidens

5. By my father you are incomparable
You match me.. and I do not

6. From a lethal beloved when distant
And a frightening one when close

7. I fear losing him here
As I fear his estrangement here

8. I await the dawn, weakened
And the darkness of night, weakened

9. No echoing telephone rings
Nor does the bell ring as a summoner

10. And I greet the passersby
Faces .. and eyes

11. Suspecting that you might be
And it suffices me to suspect

12. Love is but madness
Endured by those (who are mad)

13. And when passion ends
Temptation was what tempted us

14. You, O bitter remedy
And O sweetness of bliss

15. How you wish you could strangle
The echo of our love

16. And prepare its grave
While it's still alive to bury

17. You, O she who left me
Wounded with gashes

18. No, and in your eyes I did not find
In you a place to stab

19. No wings, even if grief
Walked to me from you, so we blamed

20. Every thorn you planted
Is fruit from you to be gathered

21. I, fearless, can find
Between your breasts a refuge

22. By Him who molded and took care
And built of you what He built

23. And adopted you "a segment"
Retrieving thus He perfected

24. And He who willed killing
To be your habit

25. So I ransom you with victims
Individually.. and in pairs

26. And He who did not spare you when
Everyone was damned for what he reaped

27. The oath of the patient He approved
What he encounters so we complied

28. If I were crowned with baseness
I would have no alternative but you

29. He created fervor and longing
To be as I am