1. Ask your brother the full moon about my wakefulness
And ask the star of the night, my companion, about my vigil

2. For my eyes have no companion but him, and so
The stars know, as people know, my story

3. I spent the night moaning in complaint and drinking
The bitter draughts of early youth to my fill

4. Since my eyelids overflowed like a sea, I drowned
In my tears and split open with your fragrant breath

5. Until I imagined myself a reveler made drunk
By one like you, in affection and chastity

6. With your cheek and a mouth, and your glances to me
Are as cups and lutes and lyrical strings