by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111)
Translation by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Si tout mon cœur pouvait ainsi qu'en ce...
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
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Si tout mon cœur pouvait ainsi qu'en ce moment, Sans fin trembler d'amour, délicieusement, Tel qu'une harpe d'or que l'on touche et qui pleure ! Si je pouvais aimer sans fin, comme à cette heure !
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 28.
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. 33 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Nocturne", op. 40 no. 3 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 3, London, Augener
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This text was added to the website: 2023-05-03
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Word count: 34