1. I am the prince of lovers
My heart is my fluttering banner

2. And it is an army
In it are the arrows of eyes

3. And it is a camp
To it hearts are tents

4. A king has camped in it
To him souls are yearning

5. He has ruled beauty and surpassed
The beauty of horizons

6. A blossom of beauty, no
Withering need be feared

7. Downcast of glance, no
Parting need be called for

8. And his magic is real, so how
True it has been for me and converged

9. Though my heart is with him
All of me yearning to him

10. It drinks my kiss whenever
Yearnings pour upon it

11. I spend the night in fear for it
Embracing to lock out separation

12. When his stature bends
The branch amid leaves

13. And whoever sees his smile
Sees garlands of truths

14. And if his trinkets sing
Have you heard sighing?

15. His languor and cheek
A line on it continuing

16. And after this a chastity
That has relaxed for lovers

17. How much they have advised it and how
Much they have screamed and said stop

18. Ask me of his wrist
And ask not of the leg

19. How excellent is the creation and how
Excellent are those morals

20. My conceited ones in his beauty
Have bowed their necks

21. And fallen silent for they
Have dazzled with bridles

22. They did not look and were struck dumb
This blind and that mute

23. After him no eyelid
Except the pouring clouds have scratched

24. The dust of earth was in
The tears of my eyes sustenance

25. O wonder at my tears
Purified by prolonged spending

26. You healed my heart so it
Told me and the shelters

27. And the cause of my humiliation is a glance
That climbed up to the waistband

28. And a theft so the body was
Punished with the penalty of the thief

29. This is the injustice
Judged for lovers

30. O killer of fervor, passion
You have not tasted what it tasted

31. You slew me with a glance
So revive me with a wink

32. You slayed me so revive me
O poison or antidote

33. I drowned in agony and you did not
Forbid me with rejecting

34. Nothing remains in me you have not
Consumed entirely with burning

35. And my hair turned white
For my white hair is burning

36. I have the example of the sun which
You have burdened with dawning

37. And a beauty who laughed when
You have saddened her with shining

38. If my captivity made him happy
Then captivity is like freedom

39. Or if a breast tightened around me, my
Breast with worries does not tighten

40. Or if he betrayed my covenant
Then I do not betray the covenant