1. A longing from you has disturbed me,
And so suspicions have overcome me.

2. None who associate with me know,
How crazed I've become for you.

3. When the deceiving lightning flashed,
Speaking softly, entertaining,

4. Reminding me of the day of passion -
No churches could contain it.

5. A burning yearning has laid waste
To the adorned dwellings.

6. Deserted, with only beasts inside -
Ruined and forsaken.

7. O fleeing gazelles,
Far from friendly gatherings!

8. O my companion, my confidante,
My intimate, entertaining friend!

9. Restrain the stallion awhile
For me, in the meadow, a detainer -

10. A stud he was, in his stable -
Of pedigree stock.

11. The hater who flees me
Is intimate with rejection.

12. Pillows of eyeliner,
Whose edge the ages have slept on.

13. A doe, whom the predators
Make into titbits.

14. A full moon risen
On a branch, fulfilled.

15. He's safe, a heaven,
And dangerous, a knight.

16. Of Turkish stock I trained him,
Trained him and nurtured him, a horseman.

17. The flower of his cheek guards
The glances of passionate eyes.

18. He's protected, so that no miserable one
Could harm him with their gaze.

19. I despair any medicine
Could cure the pain he's in.

20. O wondrous perfection, unique one -
In him my hopes reside!

21. No blame in shedding my chastity,
For you, my rival.

22. The lovesick will never shed
What the cheek wears.