1. The gazelle's eye, slain
By a lethal arrow—

2. She aimed it true at the hunter
And let the arrow fly.

3. The radiant one with the necklace gave birth to a full moon,
A branch of his neck.

4. Yet since he was ignorant he made estrangement
Some of his promise.

5. Can he attain with poetry and verse
Above his forehead?

6. How can he pluck the stars
He who is on the ground?

7. For your life, my hopes have gone
On a distant course.

8. You have reached with estrangement, Moses,
Every goal.

9. If you had split my tears over innocence
It would not have dried.

10. Instill Mount Sinai in my breast
For love, a spark.

11. It seeks sorrows, so I give it
More than it wants.

12. Did my torment strike before me
A reasonable lover?

13. How you meet the passionate visitor
With bolts!

14. Soon the excuses and confusion
Will undo the excuse.

15. Indeed the mole's dot is like a warning—
Be on guard.

16. The breeze of wishes turned her
Happy star toward it.

17. How much that mole has of moles—
Its pillar rebutted it.

18. I swear by your estrangement and gray hair
Wherever it may be.

19. Your love, O temptation,
Was not rooted in shame.

20. Were it not for your life being my paradise
And your love my faith,

21. I would revive a love in which
You were creator and restorer.

22. If you gained from your precious union
The martyr’s paradise,

23. Say to the perfume seller in his shop
Is there any but you as perfume?

24. If the neighbors suspected
I was up to no good,

25. I will settle with disgrace
The accusation of kin.

26. I will open perfume in that body—
Let whoever wants have access.

27. I feel that the watchman is indifferent to me
And the shop is new.