1. What use is living when severed from the beloved by cruel fate,
Whose darkness matches that of the blackest ink?

2. My heart is pierced by the arrows of passion,
Wounding me deeply with bitter pain and woe.

3. Will not time show mercy to this love-sick soul,
And fill the night's cup with union and peace?

4. She is a gazelle whose wine made me
An ally of love, drinking from her chalice.

5. A delicate being who captured me with her stature,
Bent like the branches of a myrtle of acacia.

6. She races in the field of charm with her night-talk,
Felling many a slain man with her dark eyes.

7. Her cheek told of the garden sprayed with roses,
Where the buds spread their softest carpet.

8. With a beauty mark that stitched endless passion,
And a page of cheek compiling perfect beauty.

9. No horizon gleams like the shine of her face
Adorned with pearl necklace and earring.

10. My heart, melt into tears, for her glances strike deep
Yet she spares me not one glance.

11. How often passion wounded my heart with her arrows,
While my fate cast me into remoteness from her.

12. To God I complain of the blows of fate,
Severing the days of my life with misery and abasement.

13. Who but she can save me with her exquisite grace?
Matchless among the proud and sublime.

14. She is the embodiment of perfection, glory and honor,
Shielding merit from decline and ruin.

15. Refuge of pilgrims, scion of the revered,
When time bared its fangs, her nobility ripped them out.

16. She is the moon that never wanes,
The boundless sea, though named as a shore.

17. Her insight penetrates whatever she relates,
And the pearls of her mind are firmly threaded.

18. Sister of knowledge, mistress of merit, she rose
To the highest ranks, never low or debased.

19. She is the garden of refinement and taste in full bloom,
Without her, merit is left barren and starved.

20. The lofty chains of her excellence grow,
As she practices honorable and sincere principles.

21. In her presence, you are nourished with the plentitude
That defeats meagerness with abundant grace.