1. Come to me, even if you do not embellish, just be gentle
For it is enough that at the moment of death we will meet

2. And if you want me to remain though love has destroyed
Its people, or else order me to join them

3. I was not satisfied with a spacious world
But when my day drew near, I was content with what remained

4. What can I do if you leave me no solution?
After your glances, how can I beware?

5. May God conceal what power your every glance has over me
Unless you fear Him, have mercy and be kind

6. Was it not enough that your cheeks were a seduction
For us that you adorn your cheeks with kohl?

7. You increased the seduction of your cheeks until you left me
To die from the mourning of the ring-necked doves

8. Your eyes sent a breeze into the ornaments
So how did the cloaks fold back from it to speak?

9. And cast upon it from your passion a touch
So it did not cease, yellowed, cautious of dispersal

10. And your breasts move it away and then gather it
As is the way of love in the fawning lover

11. I learned from it what evaded my watchfulness
And not every eloquent speech is elegant

12. Speech is only the share, the more I see
Remaining in it, suffering though not succeeding

13. If they envy me an Arab trait
Then, O Lord of a stallion, if I became senile

14. They are not aware, they did not know love
So say to whoever does not know love: love!

15. And she of slender shape, when I passed her
I said to her: I adjure you by God, so be gentle

16. I see the soul an arrow between your jaws, lodged
If this bow moves, it will slip away

17. And I turned it until when it said: "You have removed
From the eye," I said: "Now be silent or sigh softly."

18. The lion is not stronger in attacking, but I
When I see the gazelles frolicking, I leave

19. And I have a pen sharp as a fang that did not cease
But when the tear touched it, it softened

20. I am not one who hides his sorrow in his side
But something, if the full moon revealed it, destroys

21. Restrain yourself, do not finish me off, for perhaps
One day you will see the gleam of the crown on my temples

22. No trait delayed me among the people of the times
Rather, whenever I bolted forth in the race, I won

23. Whoever has a soul that sees the earth as an arena
Must one day ascend to the heavens

24. Wait, I will illuminate its horizons then put out
As your love's breaths put out my bloom

25. Do I not have words that if I strung them as pearls
Or scattered their beads, would shine?

26. It is enough for you a heart between my ribs, a poet
When its thoughts well up, they flow

27. You will find no other who says, when he weeps
For your eyes, what the heart encountered and met