English Translation: When she saw her own face in the mirror, And those sweet lips, teeth, and tongue so dear, She said, as loudly as she could, "Oh, how many've longed to kiss those lips!"

English Translation: What harm if I were but a dog of your household? A thorn in your rose garden, what would that be? The lions of the world bow at your door, So what if I were your doorkeeper's dog?

English Translation: Your image won't leave my mind, Your form fades not from my sight. Alas, for your sake, oh graceful cypress, My head spins and I cannot live without you.

English Translation: Give me the joy of life while it lasts, Until the moon rises and the Pleiades pass. And if a heavy sleep should overtake us till morning, Let us sleep until the morning prayer is past.

English Translation: Yesterday, fate was my friend and destiny my support, The bitterness of your smile was clasped in my grasp. I saw how your sweet lips moved and stirred, But when I awoke, it was only my finger I'd stirred.

English Translation: With a friend, I found solitude in the bathhouse, His flower-like face was stained with bath-mud. He asked, "Does anyone likes such a face?" I replied, "One cannot coat sunlight with mud."

Here's a possible English translation of the quatrain: Though they speak ill of me behind my back, Slander, lies, and insults they attack. One cannot sever the tale of foe from friend, You know what? Let them say, and we'll transcend.

Here's a possible English translation of the quatrain: Men don't desire paradise, scent, or hue, Nor beautiful hair or a lovely view. They seek a companion, one of a kind, In this world and the next, this friend they find.

English Translation: I don’t have a pain that physicians know, It’s a pain of love that only lovers understand. The sorrow of a familiar face has killed us, This state should not be known to strangers.

English Translation: If Majnun hadn't hoped for Layla, Perhaps he wouldn't have claimed sincere love. In the religion of love, whoever is truly devoted Doesn't turn their heart away from anyone for worldly reasons.

English Translation: No one can fault us for our gazing habit, For it is not only our desire that leads us astray. There is an idle beast, a person of crooked nature, Who does not distinguish between the ugly and the beautiful.

English Translation: That child of war who shatters armies Continually shatters our hearts like a non-believer's. The beloved, who wields a whip in his head, Is better than one who sees and yet reins in his passion.