1. My two friends, why does the heart flutter with sorrow?

    And why do the eye’s tears gush like a spring?

  2. I was created as love willed, obedient to its decree.

    So here I am, building and undoing for some time now.

  3. I submitted to a beloved, abasing myself before his might.

    Yet he draws away despite my abasement before him, and effaces it.

  4. I cast off my bridle in loving him, as though I were

    Deaf to reproachers—utterly deaf in love.

  5. I would have vanished from sight, but for a remnant

    Of the heart, where love remains and cries out.

  6. My shadow appears like a toothpick; behind it

    A heart drenched in spilled blood.

  7. I am free of longing for all but you; and in my breast

    A blaze is fanned by the breaths of yearning.

  8. Your words are my sweet basil, my solace, and my paradise.

    And without them, there is a barrier for the soul within the body.

  9. I concealed love—and it is truly humiliation.

    For its summons brings sorrow, and its claim takes root.

  10. Learn passion from my heart firsthand, for it is only

    From my own time that the age of youthful dalliance is dated.

Sol 6.1