1. Tell me and hear my certainty
Have you known my pure, steadfast love?

2. My love inspired in you by me
The kernel of my heart and its depths

3. The loss of love and life together
If you remain unaware of my passion

4. I revealed love and hid it, no
Ear listening, no heart softening

5. And I confide it and complain of its
Pain, though love I mean by pain

6. Tell me after the palm branches were shaken
And we parted, do you remember my covenant?

7. And if my name passes coincidentally
Do you prick up your ears or not listen?

8. And if I recite a poem with gentle grace
Do you understand the longing and sorrow in it?

9. They wronged me and persisted, woe to them
In the name of medicine each dawn I become like a prisoner

10. And my cure, if they but knew, my wish
Is your sweet saliva, but where, where is it?

11. Just a sip of it, if I could attain it
Would suffice me instead of penicillin

12. For the wounds of the heart may be healed by it
By this, my life, are you aware?

13. Two years have passed, how harsh they were
My eyes did not see that forehead

14. And life passed and I did not see the gathering
Of you except in wishing and moaning

15. I wonder how much I confide in you and what
Use is this whispering if you do not hear?

16. If that poetry shakes your guiding heart
What will you do?

17. Remember from me a sincere affection
Time's changes do not alter it

18. And remember from me a true companion
Who is not pleased with substitute or flirt

19. So grant him love and fulfill his right
For the life of love is a clear paradise

20. How sweet is living in its arms!
Whoever tastes it tastes the life of immortals

21. Every heart is incomplete without it
And the heart's perfection is love and companion

22. And the mingling of soul with soul as
Ambergris mingles into limpid water

23. So pasture in the heart, O its lady
And dwell in it, it is the faithful refuge