1. Had you not spurned affection in this abode
The wild deer would come to drink from your hand

2. One more gentle than you would have visited him
Had not the dawn kept him from coming again

3. If you forbid him from visiting while awake
You have allowed union with him in dreams

4. O doe grazing the slopes burdened with sorrow
Yearning for the meadows and bowing with grief

5. If your love spurns me then passion is ephemeral
Or if your abode rejects me then desire is transient

6. Never before our parting did I imagine
My love would make my heart her ransom

7. I asked the guide of their caravan about her
He said she traveled on with us

8. May her dwelling be with a loving partner
If she and I could have stayed together

9. When the meadow of my youth was verdant
Soft, and the branch of my youthfulness supple

10. Days she made happy just by her visit
My bliss, and all my smoothest milk, cream

11. I did not forget her though distance pained her
Showing consolation yet hiding her sadness

12. Until the departure made serious by her
The tracks of her tears flowed copiously

13. Alas for her who left me inhabiting
My love when she tried to wound me

14. I sold her my soul without a price
Of my deal I do not complain of fraud

15. A coquette who tells of the coquetry of dawn
But the dawn of her forehead is most radiant

16. She rises over her companions like a full moon
And exceeds the radiance of her friends in beauty

17. She let down her tresses over a moon
And bent over the curvature of a tender twig

18. What gorgeous beauty was revealed to me
If only her beauty could intercede for me

19. A counselor who lavishes on me
Advice without any meaning

20. Neither does his concern or his anguish console me
My sorrowful heart and my exhausted body

21. Alas! Solace cannot comfort my affliction
Or admonishment make my ear attentive