Divine spring penetrates me

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

Translation © by Laura Stanfield Prichard

Le printemps divin me pénètre

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

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Le printemps divin me pénètre,
Le printemps fou verse en mon être
Un désir d’amour infini :
Que le printemps fou soit béni !

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

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. 5 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Le Printemps", op. 40, published 1917 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], Paris, Éditions Ricordi
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Divine spring penetrates me

Language: English after the French (Français)

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Divine spring penetrates me,
Foolish spring pours into my being
A desire for infinite love:
May foolish spring be blessed!

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a text in French (Français) 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. 5
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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-14
Line count: 4
Word count: 20