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 ?
Imploration d'amour
Set 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
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(Sung Text)
Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.
Translations available : ENG
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
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- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Je saigne, transpercé comme d'un fer de lance Par ton amour qui fait mon mal et ma langueur ; Et je ne veux pourtant que, mon front sur ton cœur, T'adorer, et souffrir, et pleurer en silence.
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. 11
Go to the general single-text view
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 16.
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.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Author(s): Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909)