1. Ask him when will the one who went mad awake,
And has sanity become something to be sold?

2. And remind them that I asked about the rope,
Patience in love is impossible to uphold.

3. I love love and the beloved because I
In the love of love and beloved am killed.

4. Tears dried up after they used to forget
Misery like the Nile overflowed the land.

5. May God have mercy on one who gave blood
As charity over eyes tired by sorrow untold.

6. O critic, seek a liver not
Scarred where spears lunged and swords were cold.

7. You will excuse me for a long time, for I
Find time in love does not grow old.

8. And help me to consolation, for my heart
Is stubborn, and its patience tightly rolled.

9. Do you see me live while love among the people
Is a guide, behind him a weakling, lame and old?

10. People hope for bliss in life,
But little of its secret can be foretold.

11. Dreams upon the necks of nights
Are a sword in the hands of fate, loose and uncontrolled.

12. How often you see me wrestling with the first, killing
Passion, and those the path destroyed of old.

13. I am one of them. Rebuke your brother
Laid low. How does one grieve for a brother, cold?

14. Do not blame what you see in me of leanness -
Emaciation is the lovers' robe of gold.

15. Forgive the ardour as long as you remain
Empty of heart, for ardour makes the heart boil uncontrolled.

16. I am one whom the beautiful throw themselves upon
When they see a beautiful man or a beauty to behold.

17. The least love for me is that I
Among my people of love am a guide foretold.

18. O languid eyes, do not train
A glance too sharp, for the sword of glances is polished and cold.

19. Why does this slim form stir up arrogance
Like garden branches when they bend and fold?

20. As for that flirt, he leaves one mighty
Humbled, for every lover is a weakling to hold.

21.
Blame me for death however you wish,

22. For I toward death am diseased and old.
By God, I desire death in love