1. O he whose merit is pride
And whose abandonment is wrath

2. For none other than I, if he were to die
There would not be a drop left

3. I see my heart in love of you
Carried on its course

4. I see myself having fallen, my eyes
Have fallen into your eyes' predicament

5. So how many, how many do I have in
The seas of love as burdens

6. O clasp of the necklace
When its middle laughs

7. And o pearl whose only flaw
Is that it is found by chance

8. And o slave girl who sings
Without henna or comb

9. And o gazelle musked
In perfume, soaked

10. You have become the fawn's lip
In the world, nay an earring

11. As for the face, it is the sun
Lowered from the orbits

12. And as for the body, it is ivory
Whose engraving mimics engraving

13. That forelock is for the gazelle
And that chest is for the duck

14. Musk is none other than
The soft curly sideburns

15. Camphor is none other than
Your delicate palms

16. The roses complained of your cheeks
And split into pieces from them

17. And the anemones were jealous of a mouth
When they saw its beauty

18. So what is the matter of the critic
And the matter of this criticism

19. When I am fired up to a passionate one
And his passion

20. Did I not let loose my reins
Wherever a bald man lets loose his comb

21. So my heart will never unravel
From this predicament

22. And I will not be released from my imprisonment
While your eyes are on their guard

23. Grant it the police of the blind man
For every police there is control

24. People draw near until
The coin has become like carob

25. And we battled an age resembling
Its lilies are botanical decoration

26. Why, when its return sheltered us
Did it not shelter us a bit

27. So why do I flail confusion
With my palm, no matter the flail

28. And praise without attainment
Is like contracts without conditions

29. So leave people who equal
When appraised, an armpit

30. And do not heed one whose honor
Equals his honor, a forearm

31. Join the course of glory
I ransom you from that course

32. It is the course that when it existed
Was determined to benevolence

33. We diverged from a pure divergence
More diverging than divergence

34. It is the sea which no swimmer
Can match its shore

35. A boy who was not given the like
Of what he was given, would not be given to him

36. Qualities that resemble each other
Like the leopard and little leopard

37. He who has God as his master
Will see the fairness of the Most High as his fairness

38. So whoever we counted of peoples
We counted his peoples

39. As for my praise of another, it is mistake
Let alone from mistake

40. And ignorance that left
The palm tree for the sneeze and fever

41. Carry me, O lad of power
And clenching and extending

42. Carry me, for it is slipping
And stumbling and falling

43. My entry into the door of whom you love
Is like the entry of one who has lowered himself

44. For had I not been sincere in praising you
I would not have been free of nonsense