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Constantine P Cavafy's Poetry, by title

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  • According To The Formulas Of Ancient Grecosyrian Magi
    "What distillate can be discovered from herbs
    of a witching brew," said an aesthete,
    30 lines
  • Addition
    I do not question whether I am happy or unhappy.
    Yet there is one thing that I keep gladly in mind —
    16 lines
  • Aemilianus Monae, Alexandrian, 628 - 655 A.D.
    With words, with countenance,  and with manners
    I shall build an excellent panoply;
    32 lines
  • Alexandrian Kings
    The Alexandrians  were gathered
    to see Cleopatra's children,
    77 lines
  • An Old Man
    At the noisy end of the cafe, head bent
    over the table, an old man sits alone,
    49 lines, 1 comment
  • Anna Comnena
    In the prologue to her Alexiad,
    Anna Comnena laments her widowhood.
    34 lines
  • Anna Dalassené
    In the golden bull that Alexios Comnenos issued
    to prominently honor his mother,
    18 lines
  • Apollonius Of Tyana In Rhodes
    Apollonius was talking about
    proper education and conduct with a young
    27 lines
  • As much as you can
    And if you can't shape your life the way you want,
    at least try as much as you can
    24 lines
  • Body Remember
    Body, remember not only how much you were loved
    not only the beds you lay on.
    11 lines
  • But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things
    Because gods perceive future things, men what is happening now,
      but wise men perceive approaching things.
    35 lines
  • Caesarion
    Partly to verify an era,
    partly also to pass the time,
    66 lines
  • Candles
    The days of the future stand in front of us
    Like a line of candles all alight——
    32 lines
  • Che Fece ... Il Gran Rifiuto
    For some people the day comes
    when they have to declare the great Yes
    22 lines
  • Dangerous Things
    Said Myrtias (a Syrian student
    in Alexandria; in the reign of
    33 lines
  • Darius
    The poet Phernazis is composing
    the important part of his epic poem.
    86 lines
  • Days of 1903
    I never found them again -- the things so quickly lost....
    the poetic eyes, the pale
    20 lines
  • Days of 1908
    That was the year when he stayed
    Without work, for a living played
    31 lines
  • Desires
    Like beautiful bodies of the dead, who had not grown old
    and they shut them with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum,
    14 lines
  • Envoys from Alexandria
    They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi
    as these that had been sent by the two brothers,
    36 lines
  • Exiles
    It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit
    along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome
    27 lines
  • Far Off
    I should like to relate this memory ...
    but it is so faded now ... scarecely anthing is left --
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Finalities
    Amid fear and suspicions,
    with agitated mind and frightened eyes,
    26 lines
  • Footsteps
    On an ebony bed decorated
    with coral eagles, sound asleep lies
    44 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
  • Grey
    Looking at an opal, a half-grey opal,
    I remembered two beautiful grey eyes
    11 lines
  • Half an Hour
    I never had you, nor will I ever have you
    I suppose. A few words, an approach
    34 lines
  • He Came to Read
    He came to read. Two or three books
    are open; historians and poets.
    24 lines
  • He Swears
    He swears from time to time to
    Begin a better life
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • He vows
    Every so often he vows to start a better life.
    But when night comes with her own counsels,
    14 lines, 1 comment
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