1. My heart's aflame with passion's fire
My eyelids stained with hot desire

2. My mind escaped in frenzied flight
My thoughts corralled by sorrow's blight

3. My love knows neither bound nor end
My exile no established trend

4. Why does not my beloved understand
A lover concealed in sorrow's band?

5. He spends the night in sleepless care
No peace for him, no rest found there

6. In melancholy wrapped he weeps
And more profoundly sorrow steeps

7. His cheek shows what his tears have penned
In inky tattoos they portend

8. To whom can I my grief make known?
When all my books lie tattered, torn

9. I have no wings that I can spread
Except to him my hopes have fled

10. In him my fealty's focus dwells
For he all other oaths excels

11. A lord of high and noble race
Of lineage proud, esteemed of place

12. He's widely lauded, far and wide
By both the Arab and the Ajem tribe

13. You say, resemblance there may be
No doubt, deny, refute has he

14. The difference cannot be suppressed
Like the full moon when clouds have dressed

15. The candy's meaning is but fleeting
No sugar cane lasts in its greeting

16. The doe talked of her beauty rare
But nature left her without antlers there

17. The wine is meaning beyond the grape
That accident of vine and shape

18. Crescent that lit up Damascus' nights
And made Aleppo beam in lights

19. A noble one, kind overflowing
Who all the clouds' shy failings, glowing

20. Delightful, knowledge graced so fine
Whose cloak refinement made to shine

21. A brave one, of ambition boundless
A chief, his sire and grandsire stainless

22. This servant merciful and just
Who merits what prayers raise, as trust

23. The sun whose rising lifts night's veil
And all the curtains mounting pale

24. The shooting star - my hopes ignite
May it reveal care's mask of blight

25. Reproach not one who's steeped in woe
Or passion's arrow pierced his bow

26. O sea of hope, a flood surging!
To you my quest and voyaging

27. My thoughts to you flown, bridal clad
Though in perplexity they're had

28. And fantastical stories come
But cannot find escape succumb

29. Fearful they come and weep in dread
Of your reproach, wailings thread

30. I've guaranteed their kind reception
No falseness taints that direction

31. With gentleness make unseen welcome
Your breast is generous, ample

32. Live as your Lord has you maintain
While canes dance on the earthly plain

33. And say no more what the lover said
My heart's aflame with passion's fire