1. If one day the slain lover sought
Revenge against me, I would ask for the glance and the cheek

2. They helped kill me, so this
Became the bow of my heart and that its loose arrow

3. The white and the tan could not reach,
At the hands of the knights, what they reached with me

4. O bearer of the glance and cheeks as weapons
The loved one died, so do not create turmoil over him

5. And O spiller of my blood unjustly and denying it
Is the color of your cheek anything but dyed by my blood?

6. God knows I am not inarticulate
So why has my stick, since you left me, chewed?

7. And the night knows desire stirred me
Until I drowned in the water of tears when it overflowed

8. The slanderer came to you about me, so you distanced me
Oh, if only that demon had not undertaken that effort

9. And he won from you what I used to guard
Where did this wolf in our protected valley creep?

10. I found you with a tied tongue, confused
And I did not know my tongue that knew no ties

11. You, whom if the branch saw, its bends would not bend
Nor the forehead of the sun rise

12. None but you appeared with beauty in the world
As if all beauty in you was concentrated