1. O beloved of the Chosen One, O my desire
O delight of my soul and fortune of my time

2. My hopes have clung to you
I have nothing of them but biting my fingers

3. O a gazelle who hunted the lions
And a spear that captured the summits of spears

4. Yearning has confused me for your eyes
Strangely they have aimed their arrows at the one who shot me

5. In me is agony from you or stinging blame
Prohibition and love are but two sides

6. Tell the love of the youth to submit and be
Of my patience and composure in safety

7. A passion has tied me, I cannot escape
And a heart obsessed with flying

8. My long love guaranteed by a twist
That destroys souls without a pledge

9. Inclined with love yet averse from me
Frolicking like the untamed steed

10. No wonder aversion from a branch
Or bend from a flexing bough

11. It escaped from Eden, revealing
Its beauty, what an expression!

12. It flowed in its lips like Kauthar
And its cheeks reddened like two gardens

13. The critic denounced my professing it
The matter of one who criticizes beyond his worth

14. Love to me is faith, so I must
Speak of it from my heart and tongue