| La Rosa enflorece | The rose blooms | |
| La rosa enflorece, | The rose blooms | |
| En el mez de May, | in the month of May, | |
| Mi alma s’escurece, | my soul is melancholy, | |
| Sufriendo del amor. | suffering from love. | |
| Los bilbilicos cantan, | The nightingales sing, | |
| Sospiran del amor, | they sigh for love, | |
| Y la pasión me mata, | and passion is killing me, | |
| Muchigua mi dolor. | heightening my pain. | |
| Más presto ven Palomba, | Come more swiftly, dove, | |
| Más presto ven a mi, | come more swiftly to me, | |
| Más presto tú mi alma, | more swiftly, o my soul, | |
| Que yo me vo morir. | for I shall die. | |