1. When passion roared in my chest and blazed,
I thought my ribs were hung with sparks.

2. So I returned to the cooling tear of my anguish
To lessen pains and quench fires.

3. I dealt with my heart with indulgence, as
A hurt child is dealt with, and I knew.

4. O you who settled in my heart then left it lonely,
Would that this intimacy had been aloofness!

5. And that our hearts had clarified their love
So that confirmed love had united them in secret.

6. How useless is the near house between us
When your spirit from mine is so remote!

7. I lost all I desired when I lost being yours,
And my life with you went for nothing.

8. I see my high hope in the distance as if
A faint ray in heavy clouds hid.

9. How many days of my life scattered away
Like leaves off boughs flutter and fall!

10. Except that my fine days derived
An end to the past draws a veil.

11. Dark hours pass over me endlessly,
And on their heels years speed away.

12. This age tosses me about so it sees
No place in my body its harm doesn't bruise.

13. The summer sky looks clear, so no
Moon of mine by night kindles and burns.

14. Memory tortures me whenever it stirs
A live coal my ribs feed on its glow.

15. I quiver from despair and misery as if
I had drunk a potion from renouncing palms.

16. If pride in love profits a lover,
Then I excel lovers and excel.

17. And I have a generous heart, and am
Noble by nature and great at will.

18. It's my soul that beauty of noble traits
Seduces - am I to your liking still?

19. Does it please you that I, among my friends, have
Reached the utmost achievement can give?

20. Yet my heart, though impatient of scanty gain,
Grew heedless after our parting, and strayed.

21. He whom misfortunes met with equanimity
Till misfortunes, confused, went astray

22. Was molded in the cradle for great deeds,
So he stirred himself up to take the lead.

23. While some people act in ways that please
An opponent and make a friend stare,

24. His furthest goal was your approval, and
So he surpassed hearts and excelled.

25. He attained what people cannot grasp,
Nor competed with the farthest goals.

26. But this estrangement weakened his resolve,
And he fell short of reaching his aim.

27. If nothing satisfies you but his misery,
Then see how he is bent low in grief.

28. Oh, I used to think your face gave light
As I walked through the darkness of night.

29. For night is nothing but life, and love is its light
By which I walked through the dark, pace aligned.

30. If you cut me off, then life's light is extinguished;
If you join me, then the dark turns to light.