1. When he appeared, radiant in his beauty, smiling,
I called to him, enthralled.

2. He was born to Turkish nobility - but in your love
He has become an Arab nomad, smitten.

3. Do not drink from the cup of wine - give me
Your lips, which have already intoxicated me.

4. If your heart were as gentle as your embrace,
My fate would not be as dark as your cheekbone.

5. Alas - how many sharp, unsheathed swords in his glance,
How much blood his proud neck has spilled!

6. As if a gossip were whispering in the garden of his cheek
When I saw its blossoms stir and murmur.

7. With his shining lips and brow, the moon
Has made the earth into the sky, the sky into earth.