1. With longing and my torment and burning desire
And the excess of my yearning for you and my agony

2. And from you and for the sake of love the origin of my youth
And in you, even if you remain aloof, lies my hope

3. Your love in the darkness of my heart to eternity
Resides, and my patience has no intimacy with me

4. To God I have no helper against sorrow
Except the excess of my passions and reddened tears

5. Ask the night if my eye suffered from worries
And if after you my side found rest in my bed

6. Lo, then see the shedding of my tear for it
Informs the wise what lies between my ribs

7. But the love - as long as I live I'll not abandon love
Even if I know that therein lies my demise

8. When a young man does not fulfil his share of love
Oh, shame that he claimed love in vain

9. When with me is the truthfulness of my claim
My obedience to love and my pleading

10. Indeed, my body healed what was in my heart of longing
And deaf to those who blamed me regarding it my hearing

11. However, the one I loved, his way is indifference
While I to the covenant of fidelity will not swerve

12. My beloved, I cannot complain to you of that
Which is in my heart, for complaint has no place

13. If from my intoxication I awakened I set it forth
Before you, hoping you would respond appropriately

14. So I see none but you intentionally blurred
And I will not see but you my life’s recourse

15. My greetings to the people of fidelity wherever they incline
And welcome a thousand welcomes to varied reproach