I long to carry you away into a solitude

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

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Je voudrais t’emporter dans une solitude

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Je voudrais t’emporter dans une solitude 
Où fleurirait ton corps seulement pour mes yeux ; 
Et pouvoir y goûter cette béatitude 
De ne plus voir que toi, des forêts et les cieux.

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• B. Fairchild

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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 36.

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. 50 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Le grand jardin d'azur", op. 40 no. 1, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 1, London, Augener
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I long to carry you away into a solitude

Language: English after the French (Français)

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I long to carry you away into a solitude 
Where your body would blossom for my eyes alone;
And to be able there to taste that bliss
Of no longer seeing anything but you, the forests and the skes.

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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. 50
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-27
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Word count: 39