1. The youthful companion knows
What the enamored one encounters

2. O you who blame me, you do not know
Stop the blame and submit

3. My heart is captive to a gazelle
The full moon of beauty has completed it

4. A gazelle, whose eyes contain magic
Harut learned magic from him

5. His figure is of reddish gold
It sways while the eyelids quiver

6. Who of my counselors or helpers
Who is just, who has wronged me?

7. Delicate of waist but
His heart shows no mercy

8. When he sees me sick
He says, "My eyelids have weakened"

9. He is stingy with a fleeting kiss
Yet he remains veiled

10. Oh, the wine of his saliva
Oh, what a precious sealed wine!

11. O you who blame me, find rest
From blame, how long will it last?

12. The name that has made me
Infatuated with his languid glances

13. In his eyes is the best malady
And a thousand analogies, smiling

14. His ending is like his beginning
And his heart, O resolute one

15. And his poem is an imperative
Repetition and opposite under your command

16. And some of its verses are seas
And the opposite, the beloved, I know

17. My tongue does not know him
And he is held in high esteem by my people

18. What smooth commingling he is
Seeing him is a profitable dream

19. I would ransom him, the one with beauty
His love among people is shared

20. He melted my heart gently
And I am not accused of love

21. He has the seal of beauty
And beauty is sealed in him