1. You have veiled yourself from my sight,
O watcher, from this wakeful gazer,

2. Yet you've not vanished from my mind,
Though you're far from my watcher.

3. In longing, your image is with me,
Though you're far, as if you're present.

4. And ahead of me in meeting you
Goes my heart, yes, my very being.

5. My sickness was perplexed, so weak
Without a helper or defender.

6. Your flirting glance taught it to kill me -
No youth left, save tears that tender.

7. No sound left but the hissing sigh
That gnaws my wasting bones asunder.

8. My stubborn sleep has learned through you
To be remote, O you who wander!

9. No thought has passed across my lids,
Or conscious mind they shelter under.

10. I've added the gloom of sorrows to
My murky night of separation.

11. Maybe before my death I'll see
You here again, O you who fled me!

12. O you who blame me in my love -
Don't I deserve a pardon, instead?

13. O night of my beloved's estrangement -
Don't you have an end, some finish?

14. Rise against the tyranny of darkness!
By the right of waking in your languid eye,

15. By the rose that blooms in your garden -
Temptress of the watcher, fascinate me

16. With your aromatic charm, and less
Of the bird's melody deny me.

17. If you wish, then spill my blood,
Fear no avenger will come after.

18. O you who toy with the blood of the enamored,
Do you think that is lawful behavior?

19. Fear no inhibition - for in
The religion of love I've done no wrong.

20. O you who've shunned me without crime,
Though God knows well what is going on.

21. O you wearing the garb of beauty perfected,
And consummate, completed charm!

22. O you clothing me in the robe of misery
As tears embroider it fold by fold!

23. O you to whom the stars grow bright
If you would smile or speak a word!

24. Why in your estrangement are my days
Darker than the blackest night?

25. I am, O my companion in both worlds,
As delicate as your soft features.

26. Why does that cruel heart not soften
To reproach, and show compassion?

27. O you whose body almost disappears
In its smooth delicacy when glanced at,

28. And whose cheeks almost stain red
With kisses imagined, not acted.

29. Be gentle - in you burns the ember
Of youth not yet turned into ash.

30. O you whose flirting is more knowing than kings' -
Do you know my verse about you is magic, not forbidden?

31. O you whose rule penetrates
All my limbs since you took command!

32. O you I obey - if I conceal
This evident love, that is no concealment.

33. My tears have contradicted you,
And that is hard for me, so know!

34. They show, against my will, what you
Ordered concealed, and tears interpret.

35. My view is to let them be ambiguous,
Though you blame them and resent.

36. Let imagination torment and pain them,
Make them suffer and lament.

37. Let it say my guides have failed me
On my path to you, and I'm lost.

38. Who visits youth but dangers
And terrors make him later regret?

39. Maybe her tears will diminish,
And the king's command grow firm again.

40. O you who killed with love -
Even enemies are more merciful than you!

41. You made him drink the cup of poison
Unjustly, so he died, not having sinned.

42. Passion cried out with his soul -
Hand it over, and be safe!

43. No killer has ever lived
Who killed first and stayed unharmed.