by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Mes yeux t'ont récité les prières...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Mes yeux t'ont récité les prières d’amour. Ta beauté, paradis d’où pour moi vient le jour, Quand sera-t-elle enfin ma sublime demeure ? Et, pour être un élu, faudra-t-il que je meure ?
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 17.
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. 13, 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 Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Imploration d'amour", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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