1. I suffered from a burning love in my heart
Though I'm not to blame for what I suffered, nor have power over it

2. And the specter renewed in me a yearning that stirred me
Reminding me gently, though nothing had yet occurred

3. Alas! How could I forget that morning I met her
Swaying like a bough of acacia or one drunk on wine

4. To her, love, coyness and modesty were all equal
She greeted me, but with charm and shyness

5. Tranquil love reigned between us
Both stricken with love’s malady

6. I addressed both her eyes
And the eye's discourse was the most eloquent ever conveyed

7. Beneath the shade of the lote tree, our day was sweet
And she teased me with her nearness, unaware of what had transpired

8. A maid like a moist branch when bent
And like the sun when it reached the horizon at dawn

9. I gestured toward her with my fingertips
Indicating “You are the spirit, the goal, the hope”

10. You are my life, my bliss and my paradise
Queen of my heart, neither happiness nor hope without you

11. So the tenderness of love appeared in her glance
And the rose of her cheek reddened in haste

12. Smiling with a pearl-like order
Lips of carnelian, in which rest pleasure and honey

13. Lips in which life itself resides pleasantly
A delicious mouth that tempts you to kiss

14. Oh maiden, remember, do not cut off hope
Your tenderness, oh maiden, do not cut off hope

15. O maiden, I inscribed this name
On the page of my heart, with passion that still remains

16. I love you, O maiden, and love is a condition
That, when it afflicts a man, he knows not what he did

17. You and the right of love are a verse in beauty
Sublime and exalted, that none other can equal