1. My love, that full moon when it rose to oppose the half
You clothed him in a garment of humility, so he was eclipsed

2. And they thought him waning, yet he was still full
Deprived of your face's illumination, not veiled

3. And they mistook you for a full moon that came without its pair
So he humbled himself that people might spare him

4. When you turned your face from him disdainfully
We saw that hue leave his face, a diversion

5. O you, a resentful moon over the moon of nightfall
Excelling in beauty beyond any description

6. The sprightliness of a form above refined eyebrows
You see between these two sprightliness and grace

7. If this world were a bride adorned in finery
You would have been her unveiling, you her delight

8. Winking at us in coquetry with love
Disobeying yet unchastised, frowning yet undetested

9. In me is sickness from the illness of your eyes, incurable
On burns from the fire of your cheeks, inextinguishable

10. How can love for a lover be hidden from you
When your eye is an eye that knows the secret and hidden?

11. Astounding is the glance of your eyelid
For if it grows weaker, it strengthens our weakness further

12. And astounding are these two plump parts
For the fuller they become, the slenderer grows the waist between

13. O shape with a slender waist, O heaviness with plumpness
O beauty with cheek, O grace with eyelid

14. O sweetness of breath above a laughing beauty
This is musk, no, it is more fragrant, this is pearl, no, it is purer

15. O wine of saliva above which is a rose garden
Who can offer me a sip of it, who a pluck?

16. You began with kindness, so persist to its completion
For the gentleman is one who does not taint what he refines

17. This love is the livelihood of the lover when pure
But if impure, it will be his demise