by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Tout ton être, tes bras, tes lèvres, tes...
Language: French (Français)
Tout ton être, tes bras, tes lèvres, tes seins blancs, Je les saurai marquer de longs baisers brûlants, Ainsi que d’un fer rouge, — afin qu’il te souvienne, A jamais, moi parti, que ta beauté fut mienne.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 44.
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, 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. 66, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Cœur embrasé", published 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], Durand [sung text not yet checked]
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