1. The heart has made its home in your love, a group
With no way to change its intention

2. Whenever the separation between us lengthens
Your beloved longing draws near

3. My long association with you redoubles my passion
As aged wine does the same

4. Tears have veiled my eyelids, so they cannot
See what pleases them or what they shed

5. And I see distance in youth like an enchanted castle
So my heart is passionate about time

6. Though my eyes circle round in tears
Why then do I immerse them in sorrow?

7. Time cannot be restrained by separation's hand
Your company to me was stolen

8. Where the branch of youth is fresh and supple
And wine is fresh and supple

9. And my love for you cannot be traced by spies
Nor discovered by keen observers

10. And nights when they end are like songs
You know not, O object of desire, which was the loved one

11. In a time when the rights upon me
Were redoubled under the shadow of the King

12. Had you witnessed my youth you would have known
That my heart is smitten with love for you

13. Or had you understood my excess love for you
It would have vouched for me, with you as witness

14. After you, my time has nurtured me, so neither
Are the days white, nor is spring beautiful

15. I saw comfort bring my worries
Did it then distance joy from comfort?

16. It surrendered me to sorrow, so in the cup
It's comfort, while in my heart a blaze

17. And I tested the world against you
So differences persisted in my test

18. And after you I examined people's natures
Among them the candid and the guarded

19. Fate promises me reunion, consoling me
And tells tales of you, so I yearn

20. Incidents that hearing almost suspects
A heart sympathetic to you

21. And it gives me your love's confusion
So I can barely regain consciousness

22. Except that I wander passionately when
A breeze blows, bearing your perfume

23. You have conquered my heart and released
My body, so I am a willing captive