1. I fell in love's field, a casualty,
My blood spilled at dawn by the salty shore.

2. I know not which arrow has pierced me;
My heart taken captive and made his friend.

3. He showed him love signs he'd never seen,
And let him drink from his pure chalice.

4. He cast him down in the valley of passion,
With no one to beg and no one questioned.

5. Oh her magic has seared sorrow in my heart
And gave me her fiery torment in chains

6. What can I do, as embers scorch my inner self
And carve within it a path to perdition?

7. What can I do, as love has conquered me
And all my sighs have submitted in meekness?

8. Oh her kohl-lined eyes, rose of delight
Intoxicating, its extraction refined

9. You have wished me well and so inscribed
In the slate of love my fondest dream...

10. Oh her kohl-lined eyes, rose of delight
And left my heart to faces, a frequent kiss

11. And made my tears her visitors, chained
What if you had made for your lovers

12. In the shade of your tent, a heaven and rest,
And revealed to them the beads of your kohl,

13. For them to chant the tale of her Beauty,
And given your fallen beloved a glance,

14. To bring the hoped-for back to life?
Oh you bird that pecks my heart,

15. His love and madness everlasting,
Who sees in the embers of my heart

16. The sweetest of dates and a glowing lantern,
Who fashions from my heart's arteries

17. Stirrings of passion and from my breast, trills,
And settles down to wander through my thoughts

18. On a journey through prolonged visions.
Oh her mouth, verse woven

19. From the book of shared passion, a recitation
And guide through torment...

20. Why not confess some of what
The heart has concealed of fervor

21. Witnessed by limbs that hastened to hide
Denial, sighs and shame?

22. The testimony of limbs in love
Is the truest discourse that can be said

23. Love is more manifest than misleading interpretation—
The wisdom of passion knows no interpretation.

24. So be candid about love in the sanctuary of passion
And leave aside coyness in lovemaking.

25. How sweet for you to say but a word
That gives life meaning and portrayal!

26. How luscious for its texture to be
Musk, from your spit, a well-sweetened draft!

27. Say “I love you” and gain its reward—
A pure and lasting requited love

28. Say it! Set it free in the air that you may gain
A crown, when uttered from your lips.

29. Wickedness is all wickedness—confine feelings
In your silent depths that whisper no murmur.

30. A fawn that prays for you and craves
Forever from your telling, a voiced yearning

31. Oh her hidden heart between ribs
As my breast plays at interpretation

32. My craving for you in my longing a blaze,
With passion corroding your depths relentlessly

33. You show disdain while my heart crumples
And you make yourself abstain from the beautiful

34. How can one who loves conquer his passion
And let the naysayer have the final word?

35. How can a heart slaughter its own beating
And meet with rejection of its beloved?

36. My heart I sacrifice for you, O beloved, and my innermost self
And a whole lifetime—if you agree—its equal

37. We are but one heart with two flames
Burning brightly and fading all at once

38. Embracing from afar, confiding in private
Drawing apart with reunion in between

39. We share equally the fires of one lover,
The anguish of which feeds us both misery and wailing

40. Tears pour in our wake, grieving
And the ecstasy of passion comes at dawn and dusk

41. We live abundant wounds brimming with sorrow
And foresee only clouded, uncertain days