Dans la nuit, j'ai versé mon âme | Je sens dans tout mon être un étrange tourment

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Je sens dans tout mon être un étrange...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Je sens dans tout mon être un étrange tourment,
Je sens dans tout mon être une affreuse détresse,
Je souffre d'une soif immense de tendresse,
D'immenses désirs fous en mon cœur trop aimant.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 15.

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.

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. 8, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Nuit d'été", published 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Dans la nuit, j'ai versé mon âme", published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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