1. The sky's gown embroidered with stars
As if she wore a shirt of aquamarine

2. The frowning sun ailing
Turning yellow in her flushed handkerchief

3. She envied her peer so sorrow made her ill
Illness is a sign of the envious

4. She saw the dust of night shaking above her
So she closed like the eye of one blind

5. And the day passed, rending its clothes
In sorrow, and came in a black gown

6. So the stars' embers rejoiced as though
They were for the sky's patio a watch

7. As though a necklace that spilled its pearls
From the neck of a singing girl, no intent

8. Or the jewelry of coy ladies they mistreated
Scattered, roving upon breasts and transgressing

9. The horizon between reddish and gilded
Like the neck between choker and necklace

10. Her full moon face when it rose
Polished of cheek, the page of a pickaxe

11. As though the dawn's light a sword's sheen
Its blade honed and not yet sheathed

12. The earth in the garb of plains, its edges
Covered except the banks of its bare rivers

13. Gardens gird its sides as though
The shirt cuffs over bracelets of steel

14. As though it were the bare chest of a beauty
Between her throat and her amulet

15. As though the meadows' clothes were of youth
Scented with the breaths of naked boy

16. The breeze walking through them, stumbling
Between pond and cooler shade

17. The birds tilting upon their nests
Some singing, some voiceless

18. They murmur with no fear of loss
From what we suffer in the sorry time

19. O birds what in life but sorrow
If it goes a little remains more

20. The towering palace did not protect its kings
From it so how could its fragile branch avail

21. It refuses the free except abasement
Even if they climbed to the orbit of planets

22. So delight in your cage, it is a paradise
Like Eden, if not for you, no eternity

23. How many longing hearts it flung
The coquetry of the charmer, if he draws near, drives away

24. The glances' deadliness wherever directed
You heard the sigh of one enamored, despairing

25. Like the moon, if not mortal
Like the sun, if not worshipped

26. She said you love but have not fulfilled like those
Who walked this road to doom so prepare

27. Leave tomorrow's matters if you dread them
One day, perhaps you shall not live to tomorrow

28. I saw you today by love's influence
Like the sun, if unrestrained, as though setting