by
Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
La pleine lune avec son pâle...
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: DUT ENG
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[La pleine lune]1 avec son pâle enchantement
Extasiait la terre et charmait toutes choses ;
Les rossignols pleuraient dans le harem des roses,
Et nos cœurs dans la nuit se fondaient en aimant.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. En Orient, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1907, page 30.
Note for line 1: in Fairchild's setting, in the repetition, "avec son pâle enchantement" is omitted.
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.
1 Moret: "La lune"
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. 38, 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):
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The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Blair Fairchild (1877 - 1933), "Près de l'aimée", op. 40 no. 6, published 1915 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali, no. 6, London, Augener
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- by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Près de ton âme", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Heugel
- by Théodore Terestchenko (1888 - 1950), "Clair de lune", op. 22 [ medium voice and piano ], from Reflets d'Orient, pour une voix avec accompagnement de piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Jules Hamelle, ancienne maison J. Maho
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Joost van der Linden) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2020-05-08
Line count: 4
Word count: 33
The full moon with its pale enchantment
Language: English after the French (Français)
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The [full moon]1 with its pale enchantment
Enraptured the world and cast a spell over everything;
The nightingales wept in the harem of the roses,
And our loving hearts intermingled in the night.
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1 Moret: "moon"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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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. 38, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1907
This text was added to the website: 2026-08-26
Line count: 4
Word count: 34
