1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess!  *,*

The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,

the handiwork of a master.

2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;

it never lacks mixed wine.

Your belly is a mound of wheat

surrounded by lilies.

3 Your breasts are like two fawns,

twins of a gazelle.  *

4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,  *

your eyes like pools in Heshbon

by Bath-rabbim’s gate.

Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

looking toward Damascus.

5 Your head crowns you  * like Mount Carmel,

the hair of your head like purple cloth —

a king could be held captive  * in your tresses.

6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,  *

my love, with such delights!

7 Your stature is like a palm tree;

your breasts are clusters of fruit.

8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree

and take hold of its fruit."  *

May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,

and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.  *

9 Your mouth  * is like fine wine  *  —

flowing smoothly for my love,

gliding past my lips and teeth!  *

10 I am my love’s,

and his desire  * is for me.  *

11 Come, my love,

let’s go to the field;

let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.  *

12 Let’s go early to the vineyards;

let’s see if the vine has budded,

if the blossom has opened,

if the pomegranates are in bloom.  *

There I will give you my caresses.

13 The mandrakes  * give off a fragrance,

and at our doors is every delicacy,

both new and old.

I have treasured them up for you, my love.