1. The night embraced the hillsides
As your image embraced melancholy and shadows

2. Like a flood immersed in grief
Silence of majesty washed over its waves

3. While in my sanctuary, no sleep comes to my eyelids
Flooding with tears that stream endlessly

4. In my heart is the image of my passion
And before my eyes visions of my love

5. Behold the moon, in most splendid grace
Rising behind the hills of the east

6. Its halo drowned in a cloud
Like tears drowned in an eyelid

7. Or like dreams on dreamy nights
Melted into faint blue vapor

8. The night appeared intoxicated with what
Melted on its glowing horizon

9. O maiden between whose arms her passion lies
To me you have a sacredness, may God protect it

10. In my heart were hopes which
My defeat has erased and wiped away

11. In your eyes are traces of me, do not
Deny them, may God make them endure

12. For they are mirrors of my heart in love
How often did my longing see me in seeing you

13. My maiden, under the jasmine's blossom
We have covenanted to love faithfully

14. Still the flowers smile at us
Witnesses of justice to that oath

15. Remember that, and the tears we shed
In longing and tenderness

16. That tear-drop was water that descended
To baptize love with the lover's faith

17. My maiden, I had an endeavor but
My eyes and hands wearied of it

18. If fortune let it flounder,
There must come a day of rising again

19. I am in my twenties, please, I am
A colt, do not toy with the colt

20. To the cubs belong hours of playfulness
And so to the youth belong hours of playfulness

21.
My maiden, if you take pride

22. When I am mentioned among the eminent
Let your pride be my heart which

23. Melted for your sake in the cup of sighs
And if people take pride tomorrow

24. Let my pride be the motto of the miserable
A reed pen I have suspended

25. Above the chronicle of immortal men
A reed pen I have conversed with

26. As I kissed those cheeks
If I conversed with it since childhood

27. After me, existence will converse with it
After me, it will remain

28. Drawing glory on the tablet of eternity
And time will gaze from its cover