1. My tortured heart must melt away
And my tears, you must flow today

2. Tossing sleepless, anxious, in pain
Sad, hopeless, lonely, and downcast

3. My heart is all aflame by night
My body wasted, seared by blight

4. You speak of days gone by with joy
Yet balk to see my tears deploy

5. And wonder that my wounds still weep
As the wind of Damascus blows near

6. By God's grace, sickness cannot kill
No more can it my body grill

7. Cures and healers are of no avail
Habits and time are doomed to fail

8. How long will this torment remain?
When will you return, O waning moon?

9. Make my heart a vessel of delight
Let its chambers kindle love's sweet fire

10. My tears are enough, though longing's flood
Has wasted them like seas poured forth

11. None pine for you as I do, crazed
None as you can move hearts when raised

12. The sinners crowd in troops and bands
But God wipes clean their sins and brands

13. To the spy I made my secret known
Thinking he was kind, my heart his throne

14. I did not fail to hide it fast
But my eyes betrayed me at last

15. She who lost a lover has the right
To pour out blood in torrents at his blight

16. Live on in joy if I die for love
Many woeful lovers has passion drove