Je sais des airs anciens dont la langueur rappelle 
La langueur de tes yeux si mortellement doux. 
Je sais de tes regards dont la douceur est celle 
De flûtes dans la nuit, soupirant comme nous.

Text Authorship:

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, written 1907, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 21, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 21.

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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Je te voudrais donner un amour sans souffrance,
Sans ce regret qui suit chaque désir humain, 
— Regret ou haine, ou pire encore, indifférence, 
Une fête d*amour qui fût sans lendemain.

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. 40

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 31.

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]

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