by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Bois, ô lune d'amour, à la coupe...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Bois, ô lune d'amour, à la coupe vermeille, Car la lune du ciel, après nous, très longtemps Luira sur ces vergers des milliers de printemps, Mais sans nous retrouver par une nuit pareille.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Jean Lahor, Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1896, page 13.
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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- 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. 39, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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