1. The nights whose coming brought me no promise
Came to me though no tryst with them I'd made.

2. My heart was split in two by separation's wrong -
For it, fire; for my cheek, tears that strayed.

3. Love's wine is bitter, yet my heart will say
That to the drinker it is sweet as honeyed julep.

4. She says, though she's resolved to break faith with my love,
"If you keep faith, I'll keep faith with you."

5. The narcissi of her glances claim my love
No less than roses blushing into bloom.

6. For love has ruled, "This one shall be your friend,"
Though what it wants, none has the power to undo.

7. It has a cistern with two springs, and floods
Of tears that outpour, ebb and flow.

8. I've found my heart ranging boundless as the love
Of Ali's son, that has no bound set to.

9. If you string prose pearls in necklace style,
You'll find this prince is like no other prince.

10. A garden, when the white jasmine is judge,
Bars the red rose: "Don't enter in!"

11. The youth of Persia is sublime of soul,
Though, when he speaks, his broken Arabic shows.

12. A prince whose generosity, before you see his face,
Is fixed, no putting off, no promise left delayed.

13. When verses' rhymes, long and short, are made to match,
What's known of him shows honor in both deed and word.