1. Are your glances daggers, or downy pillows within you?
They have stolen the mind of your infatuated lover.

2. Before your love I never knew such intoxication
That denies guidance and reason, unwilling to obey you.

3. And of the wonders is that in love's thrall,
I know where you are, able to come to you.

4. They took you from my hands and found resolve weakened;
The sword was blunted, my palms too weak to retrieve you.

5. They distanced you far away so my pride rose up
Until when I caught up with them, they refused you to me.

6. They protected you, not with a drawn sword, but
With the arrows of the watchman's suspecting glances they shielded you.

7. By God, none of them prevented me out of fear, but
Fear of a gloating critic to malign you.

8. You are no huntress of lions with a mere glance
So how could jackals possibly hunt you?

9. They feared for you so frightened you away from passion
When your own fear increased, they blamed you,

10. If they blame you, your lover is no fallen one,
But raging passion befits you.

11. It's as if they sought to torment you wherever
With the arrows of their whims they pelted you.

12. Are you their treasure kept safe by their vigilance?
By God, their palms did not shape you.

13. Rather, weakness in your heart necessitated
Submitting resignedly to the first to veil you.

14. You straying gazelle, wounded mid-stride,
Why not turn to your neglected fold?

15. They confined you - no, they confined your eyes
Whose motions flow without a partner.

16. What of your slender waist, and the orderly grace
Of your mouth's pearl necklace, interwoven?

17. What of your rose-cheek that stayed verdant
While thorns stayed stabbing this anguished heart?

18. What of your wrist I parted from,
Seducing propriety with its smooth roundness?

19. Does your heart remain faithful to its vows?
For upon my heart love has marked its contracts.

20. Do you remember our vows on the day of strife
As the earth shuddered with spilled blood?

21. The sun was darkened, your face smiling,
People thirsted, while we quenched you.

22. A day in which we stole bliss while doom
Encompassed your gathering place.

23. I was heedless while calamity abroad
Distracted you from remembering your vows.

24. We forgot our positions and scoffed at kings,
And you saw fate's frown turn to laughter.

25. What is mine and the fates' if your palm appears?
Yours suffices me, the Most High protects you.

26. Alas your palm is unreachable, veiled as you are
Wherever they have hidden you.

27. I call you, not a hopeful supplicant's call,
But the voice of hope that calls you.

28. Hope is cut off, but immortal love
Commands I still desire you.

29. And I see you - neither answering passion - no,
Nor preventing whoever seeks you.

30. So when I withdraw, a criminal in your eyes,
And when I approach, I see aloofness garb you.

31. I am confused which manner of asking pleases you -
By God, ask me - what satisfies you?

32. For you I burned, delighted, stirred by passion;
To you my rapture, my soul I sacrifice.

33. If meeting is forbidden, a greeting
From your heart revives me, I'm happy through you.