1. O my heart, memories of wishes
Wishes are torment in April

2. Memories of youth, love and unfading hope
Sweet and good are those melodies

3. Memories of pain, purified by affection, melted like tears in the eyelids
Memories of dreams in the dusk of night, appeared in secret like a declaration

4. Memories of sorrows, kindling like the blaze of volcanoes in the heart
Memories I sigh for, and yearn for, yearning of the enamored and distressed

5. Memories founded on the love of Layla
The breath of poetry, the scent of sweet basil

6. Oh Layla, do you remember the nights
When we used to walk in the garden

7. When we enjoyed love at times
Then suffered most of the time

8. When our hearts used to flutter
With the bliss of passion and fear of time

9. When at night, oh Layla, we used to walk, drunk with love
In the calmness of darkness like two lambs

10. And the languid breeze would blow gently
With tenderness and affection

11. And the birds of heaven would sing for us
Happiest tunes and sweetest melodies

12. And the flowers of the meadows would turn to us
Bright, colorful and of varied forms

13. When at night, oh Layla, our bodies would cling together
And the two hearts would throb as one

14. When my hand would caress your cheek gently
And your cheeks would bloom like flowers

15. And the vastness of space and time
Were just a few fleeting moments

16. Do you remember the kisses with which the soul swooned
And the two lips melted in their charm?

17. And the blissful embrace, oh Layla, followed
By the racing of the two impassioned hearts?

18. And the melancholy songs, the melting wishes
And the abundant tears full of meaning

19. And we parted one night, oh Layla, and with dawn
Sorrow cast its arrows from afar

20. And the abode of dreams was ravaged, and all
That was became prey to forgetfulness

21. Love may be forgiving, but not the songs of longing
When love forgave, nor the wishes, wishes

22. And of the nights, oh Layla, there remains
Only a memory overflowing with sorrow