1. Increase me in excessive love for you, confused
And have mercy on one whose heart your love has set aflame

2. And if I ask to see you in reality
Allow it, and do not make your answer "You will not see."

3. O my heart, you promised me patience in loving them
So beware narrowness and annoyance

4. Passion is life, so die of it
Vigorously, for you have the right to die excused

5. Say to those who preceded me, and those
After me, and those who have seen my anguish

6. Take from my eyes, follow my example, listen to me
And speak of my youthfulness among people

7. And I was alone with the beloved, and between us
A secret gentler than the breeze when it blows

8. And he allowed my glance a look I wished for
So I became known though I was a stranger

9. I was amazed between his beauty and his majesty
And the tongue of my state began to inform about me

10. So turn your gaze to the beauties of his face
Where you will find all beauty depicted

11. If all beauty were to be made into an image
And he saw it, he would swoon and pronounce God's greatness