1. Love kept turning me around,
So I became lost, giving her drink and quenching my thirst

2. From a tender passion flowing from tender passion
Taking me into him, into her

3. While my heart from his bending and her bending
Is like the people of Israel lost in the wilderness

4. Oh how long this sickness of heart! Tomorrow
It will sicken whoever tried to heal it

5. If you judge fairly, you would say "Alas!
The ailing one died, with no medicine to cure him

6. He barely folded his sides
With sorrow before it enfolded him"

7. And love saw fire but did not
Fear love until it burned him

8. A thing called mystery
And people know not what it is

9. Between happiness and misery
The more they knew, the more lost they were

10. Oh my two teardrops, if
Tears remain in the eyelid, let them pour

11. And if sorrow wraps you
After parting, chase it away

12. The beloved made a pledge
That he would be gentlest in his love

13. And of wonders that I
Am pleased, asking his pleasure

14. His glances are like bees protecting
What his lips have harvested

15. So when he hums, no heart remains
Whole unless he casts at it

16. And when he walks, his steps fall
Upon my liver and intestines

17. Oh Lord, did you create him
Only to seduce whoever saw him?

18. You made him a moon, so the darkness
Of my fortune was from its light

19. And created him swift, so the shelter
Of my ribs became his sanctuary

20. And nurtured him a branch, so he sprinkled
The tears of my eyelids with dew

21. Some love is pleasure and the rest is
Torment for whoever it afflicted