1. You came to dwell in my heart, though it kills for you,
So are you staying or just passing through?

2. Since your veiling, what's happened to the night I see?
It's as if between us there's a divide, blocking the view.

3. Before your beauty entranced me, madness of passion
Had not seized my heart, and made wise counsel its fool.

4. Had your glances not dealt me a blow that proved fatal
I'd not have known that your gaze was beginning to cool.

5. Why doesn't lovesickness for you still stir me, when yours
Is a vision of beauty mine eyes are denied to duel?

6. My way of speaking betrays the desire that fills me,
Though your aloofness from me is my mind's only school.

7. Will it bring me joy, dawn of beauty, if fate
Decrees I gain your cheek's favor, though fortune is cruel?

8. You've grown stingy, refusing to listen - no gain can be got!
Modesty keeps you remote - how can anyone rule?

9. Your cheeks' roses - even the greatest poet would fail
To describe them, though long has their beauty been his jewel.

10. You've withdrawn, yet the perfume of your affection remains,
While my state is estranged though our love is the tool.

11. Whatever you do, lends assistance - just as the fallen
May be raised up again by the hand that caused his downfall.

12. My eyes are enchanting, guarding my cheek from all gazes,
My glances are languid, though freely my tears rise and spill.

13. My hair is like night - so why is it short, without length,
When my lot's bitter sorrow? Does this not cause you to feel?

14. Indeed in the darkness its length grew excessive -
But the over-outstretched at the limit turns short, and lies still.