1. I swear by the dawn when beauty gleams
And by the night whose darkness streams

2. Though the swords of old age gleam
My steed of resolve still beams

3. O you who grace me with love’s reprieve
Let me be, for I do not grieve

4. End it, for death of passion’s brief
And madness of love is relief

5. So my tear streams as billows heave
If clouds depart, branches weave,

6. I’m the drowned man calling to cleave
Only the coast can the drowned receive

7. This as I met in an hour one eve
That recalls love and makes it seethe

8. A time that for lovers reprieved
Was a cloak of solace to them weaved

9. In a meadow we clothes bequeathed
Embroidered by spring newly leaved

10. With sweet beloveds tender sieved
Souls they steal when e’er perceived

11. A branch when youth sighs heaved
Tempts the bulbul when seen relieved

12. His glances make lovers bleed
See his cheek by blood stamped indelibly

13. How many nights the narcissi grieved
And I replaced in my cheeks perfumed freshly

14. I smelled from him good praise effused essentially
Virtuous, righteous and elite

15. Perfect, profound and fleet
Noble, honored Kurds effete

16. We hope in every ordeal discrete
Valiant, from lawful eat

17. Until eternity replete
Fates lead him the most discrete

18. No flaws did the praiser meet
He excels all in first place fleet

19. What equines with him compete?
O sea that brought to me an elite

20. Pearl that every knot makes replete
You honored me, eased me, pleased me

21. And gave escape from every narrow street
Excuse my feeble feat

22. If I but gems for pearls did mete
Still with reform, grace effete

23. Every crooked heart you treat