1. The phantom of the beloved and the yearning of the grieved
I yearn for you every moment

2. My wings and limbs flutter for you
And my emotions and passions melt for you

3. And memory stirs me so my mind dances
And hovers around you like a possessed madman

4. And my longing for you shakes me so I bend
Yearning with tears filling my eyes

5. God hides his love in the loving one
Stirring dormant love within him

6. The phantom of the beloved, you are my flower
For which I live and the tenderness of eglantine

7. Oh beautiful bird of my dreams, remembering
The beloved excites the enamored one

8. Oh sun of my hopes and garden of my joy
And breeze of my sighs and comfort of my moan

9. Oh glow of the brilliant sun and whisper of
The hidden obscure secret

10. Oh relief of my pain and lightning of my joy
Oh bitterness of my anguish and sweetness of my passion

11. Oh outpouring of my worries and murmur of my mind
And bride of my poems and magic of my infatuation

12. In my love for you I melt every instant
With love and the fire of my love burns me

13. The phantom of the beloved, I am a specter
In a colorful, possessed world

14. I pass with an obscure ray in my mind
Undulating in an obscure charm

15. And a beautiful hope shakes me with a name
So I return from it as a deceived fool

16. So I go lamenting my ill fate
Miserable, burdened by the years of my life

17. And I dissolve in myself and sorrow melts me
And I lose consciousness in mad absence

18. And I come to it in the desert of a confused soul
Suffering, resentful, miserable

19. Seeking release while shackled by
A despicable nature of base clay

20. Oh how wretched to be elevated by longing
At times and stunned by passion at others

21. So I go between rising and falling
And between my anguish and my moan

22. Until you appeared to me in the image of
Dazzling, magnificent, perfect beauty

23. With the slender figure that excites me
And the radiant face that captivates me

24. And you seemed to me in the darkest night, kissing
The lyre of rhythm and melody

25. Singing the anthems of heaven, so flowers bloom
And birds above the branches

26. And exchanging kisses the sky bends
Shining with its stars and my eyes

27. You glance at my face, your lips smiling
And touch it with gentleness and yearning

28. And the night passes by reverently, awed
And wraps us in tranquility and peace

29. So I melt into the fullness of its distant horizon
In the sky, in lofty aspirations

30. You revived my hopes and my soul rejoiced
And my worries joyfully fell upon you

31. And I slept, dreaming, reciting my purpose
The phantom of the beloved, my bliss and charm

32. The phantom of the beloved, the people blame me for you
If only they knew you, they would not blame me