Oh ! mon amour, pourquoi, quand nous sommes ensemble, Délicieusement, ai-je le cœur qui tremble ?... Comme lui, la mer tremble au coucher du soleil, Et la forêt, sous l'aube aimante, à son éveil.
Oh ! Mon amour
Set by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Oh ! Mon amour", op. 40 no. 2, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 2, London, Augener
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(Sung Text)
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
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Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 28, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 25.
Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.
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Les lignes de ton corps sont comme une musique, Tout ton être, tes bras, tes seins délicieux Créent des rythmes parfaits pour mon âme extatique ; Et je les goûte avec des larmes dans les yeux.
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 30
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 26.
Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Ta beauté, quand tu pars, me laisse comme un chant, Dont la tendre douceur tout entier me pénètre ; Et mon âme s'emplit de soupirs l'étouffant, Et ce chant merveilleux fait trembler tout mon être.
Text Authorship:
- by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 37
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 30.
Note: This is not a translation. Al-Ghazali left no known poetry; these quatrains were written by Jean Lahor (pseudonym of Henri Cazalis), who imagined himself into Al-Ghazali's life and thought, adopting the quatrain form because it was current in Omar Khayyam's era.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Author(s): Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909)