1. O you who laugh with joy, do you not grieve
For these tears in my eyes?

2. I weep while God has honored your cheeks
With roseate complexion.

3. The blamers have maligned my love before you
But the shame of my love is mine alone.

4. They divided it between innocence and sin
While I made it wholly sinful and innocent.

5. O my beloved! Let me kiss your cheeks
And quench my thirst at your pearly lips,

6. Offering love sugar and nudity,
A ravishing body and an ardent soul.

7. In my heart is a love like Paradise,
On my lips a red fiery lust.

8. When the body was in revelry
God have mercy on our chaste love!

9. A magic temple attracted me,
And whispered: come! My soul replied: Here I am!

10. O my love, your eyes' sorcery makes me dream,
I saw their Babylonian magic.

11. We built a temple of sinful love,
Where dawn was gold and purple.

12. We practiced sorcery in it,
And worshiped, poet and soothsayer.

13. The drunk poet sang among idols,
Pleased by their nakedness as dress and jewelry.

14. When he wanted music, he would hear
A temple, a tambourine, a flute.

15. When he longed for a beloved, two arms
And breasts, a smile and a gaze were there.

16. I dream, and time watches my affairs,
Destiny bows to my present desires,

17. Dreams are a hidden world I see,
A laughing, visible world.

18. Imagination pictured wonders,
And light like the wine in my clay cup.

19. Many a dream passed by night
Became a prophet when fantasized.