A nightingale moans in the shadow of my soul

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by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Un rossignol gémit dans l'ombre de mon...

Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)

Our translations: ENG

Un rossignol gémit dans l'ombre de mon âme, 
Il pleure au souvenir d’anciennes nuits d’été, 
Et d’une rose aussi dont l’ardente beauté 
Au milieu du jardin jetait comme une flamme.

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 47.

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. 71 [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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by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Souvenir", op. 23 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho
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A nightingale moans in the shadow of my...

Language: English after the French (Français)

A nightingale moans in the shadow of my soul,
It weeps at the memory of long-ago summer nights,
And of a rose too whose ardent beauty
Burst forth in the midst of the garden like a flame.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) 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. 71
- Go to the text page.

Based on:

a text in Arabic (العربية) by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad aṭ-Ṭūsiyy al-Ġazzālīy (c1058 - 1111) [text unavailable]
- Go to the text page.

This text was added to the website: 2025-05-12
Line count: 4
Word count: 37