1. O mother's name, in my troubles is there anything
But renewed hopes and cooling of my ardor?

2. All the affection and tenderness it contained
And I who told the tale about it

3. So I began to spread what it contained and folded away
O sweetest of names to my hearing

4. You delighted me like prose and rhyme
How you tore me in the house and neighborhood

5. So my mouth cracked or my tears flowed
And when I grew weak, I drew strength from you

6. O mother’s heart, you are my basil plant
My heart turns to you, so loving

7. I have for you reverence and comfort
If sickness and sorrows befall me

8. O mother’s heart, in you lies tenderness
O mother’s heart, my breath resides in you

9. Confined, growing like saplings
You are made of pearls and rubies

10. And love remains in you like myrhh
O mother’s heart, your sap has not withered

11. O mother’s wakeful, perceiving glance
You are nothing but the shining planet

12. My purity came from your pure tears
And guidance to me from your brilliant light

13. If my heart goes astray in darkness and passion
O mother’s mouth, you are my paradise

14. How many kisses you contain, and how much affection
And the echo of a melodious song delighted me

15. In the cradle, how it tore at me, and how it cooed to me
If I spend the night complaining of an illness and fervor

16. The voice, from the warbling of a bird
You brought good news or greeted the morning

17. From you comes relief from injustice and harm
O my flower, O candle of the monastery

18. O reciter of the sweetest speech it contained
O mother’s hand, iris of the valley

19. You are the one who ransoms me from the common
How often you offered me my provision

20. When my wellbeing and happiness were your concern
In rocking my cradle or in remembering passion

21. O mother’s embrace, meadow of paradise
I fear no trampling there

22. You nurtured me with nuzzling and kisses
When I was in you like an arrow in a bow

23. And a nest shelters fledglings just so