1. My mind was toyed with by hopeless love
And the beloved blamed my aching heart

2. O you who enchanted while a gazelle fawn
I swear by your smooth neck and forearms

3. You are but temptation to people
Counselors cannot deter me from loving you

4. Can tablets and books really chastise me?
O you who know my state and make me melt

5. I complain to you of my insomnia, answer me
From the love of princely boys that torment me

6. How can I attain union and reach the beloved
To a passionate lover, crazed and mindless

7. Will you not be generous to one exiled from his people
O you for whom I accepted estrangement

8. And the loss of my homeland and kin