1. You have outshone the neck of the gazelle with your neck
And surpassed it with allure and flexuous sway

2. And you were more worthy than the branches of the willow
Of whatever is imputed to their lithesomeness and pliancy

3. O you who offer me cups of passion’s wine
And ply my heart with love unto ecstasy

4. Enough for me, enough for passion and enough for you is what
Separation does to me so do no more

5. I who yearn for cheeks so why
Do you conceal them with coquetry and ornament

6. You have freed my heart yet gone to deny me
A freed girdle round the waist made fast

7. In me is passion such that no one else
Has the like of it nor have I revealed it to anyone

8. How many for the censurers are there
Who exhausted counting them before counting me

9. Oh wonder! While tears flow from the eye’s spring
And the heart is aflame though in chains

10. By God, O long night of mine, you have
Shortened my sleep and brought me no morrow

11. You have made my luck in love reversed
So strive to provide a meeting for the insomniac

12. Until you see me say in joy:
O eye return and O lips come back

13. You have left me lovelorn, the first of it
Falls short of the last evermore

14. You have led me, beyond what I can bear of love’s till,
Above my strength in love, do no more

15. For he who is beyond his capacity
Bears the incapacity of his strength so slow down

16. I have reported my murder by your eyes so in
My reporting is my murder sans evidence

17. None has refuted my reporting
Since none has refuted my love from anyone

18. By God do not unleash the lashes
Upon my heart for hearts have no endurance

19. And spare my eye do not weaken it with sickness
The soul needs to be within you in a body

20. Why did you aim the arrow of lashes into
My eternity with you in proximity