[La pleine lune]1 avec son pâle enchantement
Extasiait la terre et charmait toutes choses ;
Les rossignols pleuraient dans le harem des roses,
Et nos cœurs dans la nuit se fondaient en aimant.

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. 38, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 30.

Note for line 1: in Fairchild's setting, in the repetition, "avec son pâle enchantement" is omitted.

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.

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Johann Winkler

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J'ai fait de mon amour un monde hors du monde,
J’ai fait de mon amour un jardin enchanté,
Où dormira mon cœur en une paix profonde,
Où règnera la lune d’or de ta beauté.

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. 57, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 40.

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.

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

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