by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Il n'est nulle douceur comme celle...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Il n'est nulle douceur comme celle d’aimer, Ni fièvre dévorante égalant cette fièvre, Ni fruit délicieux qui sache alors calmer Ma lèvre, en s’y fondant, comme le fait ta lèvre.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 19.
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, appears in En Orient, in 1. Les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, in 1. Les amours, in 1. L'Amour de la Femme, no. 16 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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