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  • Of Coloured Glass
    I am very moved by one detail
    in the coronation at Vlachernai of John Kantakuzinos
    15 lines
  • Melancholy Of Jason Kleander, Poet In Kommagini, A.D. 595
    The aging of my body and my beauty
    is a wound from a merciless knife.
    10 lines
  • Longings
    Like the beautiful bodies of those who died before growing old,
    sadly shut away in sumptuous mausoleum,
    7 lines
  • The Photograph
    In this obscene photograph secretly sold
    the policeman mustn't see) around the corner,
    14 lines
  • When they are roused
    Try to guard them, poet
    However few they are that can be held.
    16 lines
  • In The Month Athyr
    I can just read the inscription on this ancient stone.
    “Lo[r]d Jesus Christ.” I make out a “So[u]l.”
    12 lines
  • I´ve Looked So Much…
    I’ve looked on beauty so much
    that my vision overflows with it.
    9 lines
  • Long Ago
    I’d like to speak of this memory…
    but it’s so faded now…as though nothing is left—
    7 lines
  • In 200 B.C.
    We can very well imagine
    that they were utterly indifferent in Sparta
    76 lines
  • The First Step
    The young poet Evmenis
    complained one day to Theocritus:
    26 lines
  • Priest at the Serapeum
    My dear old father,
    who always loved me the same;
    30 lines
  • Voices
    Ideal and beloved voices
    of those who are dead, or of those
    25 lines
  • Pictured
    My work, I'm very careful about it, and I love it.
    But today I'm discouraged by how slowly it's going.
    12 lines
  • Tomb of Iases
    Iases here I lie. To whom this proud
    City for youth and beauty gave much fame.
    8 lines
  • Picture of a 23-year-old Youth Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amature
    He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now
    he studies it in detail. He has painted him in a
    13 lines
  • The Bandaged Shoulder
    He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen.
    But there was probably another reason
    42 lines
  • One of Their Gods
    When one of them passed through the market place
    of Seleucia, toward the hour that night falls
    41 lines
  • Trojans
    Our efforts are those of the unfortunate;
    our efforts are like those of the Trojans.
    53 lines
  • From The School Of The Renowned Philosopher
    For two years he studied with Ammonios Sakkas,
    but he was bored by both philosophy and Sakkas.
    30 lines
  • They Should Have Provided
    I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper.
    This fatal city, Antioch,
    88 lines
  • Poseidonians
    The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language
    after so many centuries of mingling
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • Remember, Body...
    Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
    not only the beds on which you lay,
    24 lines
  • Very Seldom
    He's an old man. Used up and bent,
    crippled by time and indulgence,
    11 lines
  • I've Brought To Art
    I sit in a mood of reverie.
    I've brought to Art desires and sensations:
    9 lines
  • Theodotus
    If you are truly one of the select few,
    watch how you acquire your power.
    42 lines
  • In Church
    I love the church: its labara,
    its silver vessels, its candleholders,
    11 lines
  • The Windows
    In these dark chambers here what weary days
    I spend, walk up and down as in a maze
    18 lines
  • In Harbor
    A young man, twenty eight years old, on a vessel from Tenos,
    Emes arrived at this Syrian harbor
    26 lines
  • Walls
    With no consideratio n, no pity, no shame,
    they have built walls around me, thick and high.
    23 lines
  • Ionian Song
    Just because we've torn their statues down,
    and cast them from their temples,
    24 lines
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