by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111)
Translation by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
De ses lèvres la Mer voudrait baiser le...
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
De ses lèvres la Mer voudrait baiser le ciel, Puis retombe et gémit d’un sanglot éternel ; Ma bouche aussi voudrait monter jusqu’à ta bouche ; Le baiser de mes yeux seul t’approche et te touche.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 18.
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. 15 [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]
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