1. Rest your head on my letters and warm yourself with my affection
Soar above my words and ignite my flame

2. Traverse the paths that I once adorned with kisses
I blended them with my mouth and quenched them with my weariness

3. Feel my melody within them and my rhyme
And ask the throngs of lovers about my rapture

4. Search and you’ll find my color and fragrance
Above the dew in the blossoms of almond and grape

5. Princess of love, love has died so awaken
And stir my concealed musical instrument and come near

6. Extend your green tresses above my hand
And share with me the tremor of intimacy and pour yourself out

7. I came to bestow upon you my preserved joys
Sweet like musk, telling of an expatriate’s longing

8. From the rosy kiss of hope from my homeland
Not exported from the castles of falsehood in crates

9. My passions raced me as I ran to you
I entered searching for my face and my playfulness

10. Beauty of the age, O face that teaches me
The sincerity of love in the time of falsity and lying

11. O palm tree whose clusters inspire me and O a dream
That sneaks into my silent and clamorous solitude

12. Rise up, O fortresses of poetry and excel
The coolness of mist and extend the clouds

13. And share with me the madness of confiding and listen
To my poems, partake with me in the intoxication of tumult

14. Reproach me for my absence, and longing is reproach
So reproach me, for the sweetest love is in reproach

15. If I am absent from you for some matter, O my tormentor
My heart still resides in you, it did not depart

16. For you are my sweetest chant that I memorized
And revealed my secret and opened the doors to comets

17. Your love traveled in my heart and in my pen
And grew refined rhetoric in my literature

18. So neither your crown nor your medals will change me
For you are greater than your crown and title to me