by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Mets mon front sur ton sein, mets ta...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Mets mon front sur ton sein, mets ta main sur mes yeux : Oh ! cache-moi la mort, et cache-moi la vie ! Rien au monde que toi, rien ne faisant envie A mon cœur caressé par ton toucher soyeux.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 22.
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. 23 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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