1. How enviable you are, by God
With your glance, spirit, and stature

2. Your eyes are the eyes of a gazelle
And your hair is black as the night

3. Your smile a string of pearls
Would that I could thread them

4. I am alone in rhyming
While you are unmatched in beauty

5. Why this aloofness
And estrangement, O sweet and cold one

6. How many nights I stayed up
Saying: O star, bear witness

7. That I am sick with longing for him
And that I envy him

8. And that he is shy
And I am patient

9. And whenever I intend to abandon
His estrangement, he threatens anew

10. And when alone with myself
I find it rebelling

11. I say: O soul, have patience
For his door is not barred

12. I say this while my heart
Burns with agony

13. My wish tomorrow is you
But yesterday and tomorrow are the same

14. You are the shrine of my heart
So wherever you are it bows down