1. In God's name, O beauty of eyes, visit me
Before death, or send me an excuse

2. These two matters, so choose what you love
Whether to you or death calls me

3. If you wish me dead, you own my soul
And if you wish me alive, then give me life

4. O, you blame, you are but an innovation created
Not of clay, while people are of clay made

5. How many detractors of yours have I not heard
And none could seduce me but your adornment

6. As if your critics but show your virtues
Praising you to me and tempting me

7. No love do I know beyond loving you
So it hurts you not that I want no more of you

8. I wonder at a love that draws me close
To one who distances me and excludes me

9. If he would just favor me with what I'm tasked
Then I'd be pleased, and half would satisfy me

10. O people of my love, I've been kind to you
In love, exhausting myself, but you don't care for me

11. Thanks be to God, I thought you all
The most merciful of people to the weak

12. As for plenty, I expect none from you, and even
If you made me hope for little, that would suffice me