1. Does the doe of the sanctuary know that she has set ablaze
The heart of an ardent lover whom she has weaned from contentment?

2. So he is in heat and tumult like
The east wind playing with live coals.

3. O you whose cheek dawned on the day of parting
Deceiving me, following the ways of deceit!

4. My soul alone is not at fault, except
For your beauty and my eyes which gazed.

5. Delights have come to me, though my innermost being is wounded,
And my pleasuring in thoughts of my beloved.

6. And when I complain of my torment, I smile
Like someone tearful or frowning from a headache.

7. When my passion is confided to him whose glances
Make me fly, his eyelids leave of me

8. A trace like the trail of ants on smooth rock.
And I thank him for what remains;

9. I do not upbraid him for what is ruined.
To me he is just though he wrongs,

10. And his words though silent are my advocate.
I have no power over the matter after

11. My breath has given place in my being to my breath.
He has overcome me, overcome me completely

12. With languor. I ransom him with my father from one who is unyielding and harsh!
We knew of no lips that glistened

13. Until they were sweetened by his musky wine.
His glances imbibed their intoxication from them

14. While my heart is drunk with what will not pass.
Delicate of the rope, honeyed of taste,

15. Sorcerer of the vine, glorious in smiling,
His beauty follows the dawn smiling

16. Though he is aloof in his aloofness.
O questioner about my crime in his regard,

17. I get punishment for the sin while he is the sinner.
The dawn sun has taken from his cheeks and freshness

18. A radiant light against which the sun has radiance.
My flowing tears, my longing for him, have gone,

19. While his cheek by my yearning is made to shine.
Whenever my eyelids glance at him

20. My gaze plants roses in his cheek.
Would that I knew what thing has forbidden

21. Those roses to the one who planted them!
My flowing tears have set in my breast a fire

22. That flames up in any manner it desires.
It is coolness and peace in his cheek,

23. While it is harm and burning in my inner being.
I fear him according to the rule of love--

24. A lion, a fawn, and I love him as a fawn.
When his landmarks appeared, and he in his haughtiness

25. Turned aside, I said to him, "You who have taken my heart by force,
Make union in place of the one-fifth!"