1. I loved you, and patience is impossible for me,
So do not kill me with this coyness.

2. My existence deserves what you are worthy of,
And do not make me beg long.

3. After the prohibition and coyness taught me
Your love of compliance,

4. And taught me your refined disdain,
And taught me your brief glance,

5. Your beauty exudes arrogance
Even if your nature is not pretentious.

6. It is the soul, and the body is its prison,
And your soul is free in this expanse,

7. Unfettered like a bird twittering in a meadow, or like a gazelle
That stirs up ideal traits in the soul,

8. Innocent of discontent and passion.
It is the body without a soul, an example,

9. It is the soul without an imaginary body.
I see beauty in the lightness of spirit,

10. And slender grace, and gentle composure.
Though the body has half the beauty,

11. And elegance is half the beauty.