1. My eyes overflow with tears of longing
for my heart is filled with sorrows untold

2. How strange that what betrays my love
is what innocence would withhold

3. In love, truth is reversed, well-known
to see the black, faults of does disown

4. And when I looked, I found none stronger
in claiming the forbidden, than one downcast in sight

5. O she who is fickle in keeping her word
is your loyalty in promises slight?

6. You've followed my estrangement with coldness
while my body is soft like your form

7. By God, speak! Daughter of the departed
what is this punishment, and my crime?

8. Why not show some pleasure allowed
goodness expects only what's kind

9. Your love for me is secret to all but you
a free man keeps his passions confined

10. Think not I'm tempted by a mere delight
I'm not one to be led astray in mind

11. My reins are in your hands but my hands
have gained that they hold my reins

12. By my father whose cheeks and jasmine
like partridge roses sweetly combine

13. Smiling with teeth like pearls
embedded in the finest coral line

14. Though she glances coquettishly like a narcissus
she captivates with fingers soft and fine

15. None reproach her but the harshness of her heart
which is pliant as the boughs of banana

16. If her kohl-rimmed eyes were white
horsemen would spur their steeds to vie

17. She proceeded to capture me, and how strange
to punish the one made crazed by her eyes

18. She ignores the certainty of my passion
turning to blamers, denying my cries

19. While her messenger at times is received
I'm left to suffer in lonely demise

20. In her beauty and my love we are equal
by God, none other can compare, her equal am I

21. When multitudes profess their love to her
I'm the first, though in times gone by

22. Don't gloat if I'm humbled by her glory
love of the beautiful is cause for self-deny

23. Yet I put kings to shame in that I
for the beloved, am a slave till I die