1. My heart endured longing and yearning in love
For one who did not allow his love to take root

2. Do not tire yourselves for my heart will not obey
If you try to mend what has already been ruined

3. You blamed me for passion, yet found not
A trace of what I felt in this love

4. I entrust my soul to God, enamored
And for it I reckon the tears I have shed

5. I let it run wild in the battlefields of love
For passion has no end or boundary

6. Once I had a body made frail by illness
Now I have neither body nor soul

7. I would sacrifice myself for the gentle honeyed one
Who taught the branch such softness and bending

8. Like the gazelle when it gave, or the lion when it pounced
The branch when it swayed, the full moon when it rose

9. Far be it! I keep secret the trysts with my love
For he promised his love and union with me

10. Since I took shade beneath his passing clouds
And the lightning of his smile rained ice upon me

11. I do not jest with the doe of his valley
Lest I unleash his eyes' lurking lions