1. O who will aid a lovesick man who has strayed in love from his good sense?

    For no reproach will make him desist from his folly.

  2. He roused a quarry, and its snares caught him.

    Alas for him, seeking his death with his own hand!

  3. A quarry that returned what its hunter had shown

    Of guile when he came upon it, and of pursuit.

  4. He is the slain one whose eye did not err

    Deliberately; and his killer feared no retaliatory execution.

  5. A gazelle shot him, gazing with a furtive glance;

    So the gazelle lodged the arrow of its glance in his liver.

  6. He is reproached by one untouched by what afflicted him

    In love; that man lacks the sufferer's endurance.

  7. He who enslaved me with his neck flaunts that neck,

    As though bestowing beauty upon me from his graceful, long neck.

  8. O you with the radiant mouth, how often with that mouth you kill one

    Whom love's heat has slain, longing for its cooling hail!

  9. Ah, how welcome his conduct, if he would treat me

    In love as his graceful suppleness suggests.

  10. I am denied what I adore in his two kinds of pearls—

    The beauty of his precious strung pearls and of his scattered ones.

  11. The talebearers inform against us at parting; and if

    We part, all those people are among his watchers.

  12. Together with them, he kept withholding what I loved,

    And never once showed pity to his persecutor.

  13. O would that, in this life, our two souls had met

    In love within my body—or, if not, then within his.

Sol 6.1