1. They did not falsely report their love
Your love was not something new

2. The seeds of your affection blossomed
So the patience of the lover was shattered

3. O you who deserted me for their love, reproaching me
Is it lawful in the law of love that I desert you?

4. I disobey blame but cannot obey sleep
So my ear seems my eye and blame my friend

5. In every swaying figure it is as though
A branch stirred by the breeze when it blows

6. She said, having heard my flowing tears:
"The speaker was truthful and events happened as told"

7. I remembered so foolishness belittled it
Until it seemed small to onlookers, who magnified it

8. And were ignorant of beauty's meaning until I came
And saw it depicted clearly in her

9. Do not mention the gazelles in their glances
Ever, for all game lies in the belly of the tomb

10. Since love's agony came to me
I made my response: "In love you will not see"

11. I walked by night when her hair was blackest
And at dawn praised her blossoming smile

12. She rose, wearing necklaces of her jewelry,
So I saw a branch heavy with fruit

13. O you who, when her sweet talk passes
Shout for old wine and get drunk!

14. No slenderness was revealed in your waist
Unless it made you pensive with the coat of mail

15. The day we parted I sold my tears cheap
Leaving my heart aflame with passion

16. Do not hope to own the people of love
For the victorious sultan has owned the earth