Selected Poems
The spellbinding verse of one of the most distinctive poetic voices of the twentieth century\ Although the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy died in obscurity, today he is regarded as one of the most original of twentieth-century poets. Whether conjuring moments from Alexandria’s ancient past, lyrically evoking homosexual trysts, or painting exquisite miniatures of everyday life, his poems exude a striking inventiveness and staggering beauty, qualities that are preserved here in Avi Sharon’s...
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The Greek poet C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) is one of the most singular and poignant voices of twentieth-century European poetry, conjuring a rich interior world through lyrical evocations of remembered passions, imagined monologues and dramatic retellings of his native Alexandria's ancient past. W. H. Auden Ever since I was first introduced to his poetry . . . Cavafy has remained an influence on my writing.
Pt. I Poems 1897-1904Voices 3Desires 4Candles 5An Old Man 8Prayer 7Old Men's Souls 8The First Step 9Interruption 10Thermopylae 11Che Fece ... II Gran Rifiuto 12The Windows 13Walls 14Waiting for the Barbarians 15Lies 17The Funeral of Sarpedon 19The Horses of Achilles 21Pt. II Poems 1905-1915The City 25The Satrapy 26The Wise Perceive Imminent Events 27The Ides of March 28Done 29The God Abandoning Antony 30Thodotus 31Monotony 32Ithaca 33As Much As You Can 35Trojans 36King Demetrius 37The Glory of the Ptolemies 38The Procession of Dionysus 39The Battle of Magnesia 40The Displeasure of the Seleuad 41Orophemes 42Alexandrian Kings 44Philhellene 46The Footsteps 47Heredes Atticus 48Tyanian Sculptor 49The Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias 50The Tomb of Eurion 51That's the Man! 52Dangerous Things 53Manuel Comnenus 54In Church 55Very Seldom 56Of the Shop 57Painted Things 58Morning Sea 59Ionic 60The Cafe Entrance 61One Night 62Return 63Far Away 64He Vows 65I Left 66Chandelier 67Pt. III Poems 1916-1918Since Nine O'Clock 71Insight 72Before the Statue of Endymion 73Envoys from Alexandria 74Aristobulus 75Caesarian 77Nero's Deadline 78In the Seaport 79One of Their Gods 80The Tomb of Lanes 81The Tomb of Iases 82In a Town of Osroene 83The Tomb of Ignatius 84In the Month of Athyr 85For Ammones, Who Died at Twenty-nine, in the Year 610 86Aemilianus Monai, Alexandrian, AD 628-655 87When They Come Alive 88Pleasure 89I Have Gazed So Much 90In the Street 91The Tobacconist's Window92The Passage 93In the Evening 94Grey 95Beside the House 96The Next Table 97Remember, Body 98Days of 1901 99Pt. IV Poems 1919-1933The Afternoon Sun 103To Live 104Of the Jews, AD 50 105Imenos 106On the Ship 107Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 BC) 108If Indeed Dead 110Young Men of Sidon (AD 400) 111That They May Come 112Darius 113Anna Comnena 115Byzantine Aristocrat, in Exile, Composing Verses 116Their Beginning 117The Favourite of Alexander Balas 118The Melancholy of jason Cleander, Poet in Commagene, AD 595 119Demaratus 120I Have Brought to Art 122From the School of the Renowned Philosopher 123Craftsman of Wine Bowls 124For Those Who Fought in the Achaean League 125To Antiochus Epipbanes 126In an Old Book 127In Despair 128Julian, Seeing the Contempt 129Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene 130Theatre of Sidon (AD 400) 131Julian in Nicomedia 132Before Time Could Change Them 133He Came to Read 134The Year 31 BC in Alexandria 135John Cantacuzenus Has the Upper Hand 136Temethus, Antiochian, AD 400 137Of Coloured Glass 138In the Twenty-fifth Year of His Life 139On Italy's Coast 140The Dreary Village 141Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes 142The Illness of Cleitus 143In a Town of Asia Minor 144Priest at the Serapeion 145In the Bars 146A Great Procession of Clergy and Laymen 147Scholar Departing Syria 148Julian and the Antiochians 149Anna Dalassena 150Days of 1896 151Two Young Men, Twenty-three to Twenty-four Years Old 152Greek Since Antiquity 154Days of 1901 155You Did Not Understand 156A Young Writer - in His Twenty-fourth Year 157In Sparta 158Picture of a Young Man of Twenty-three, Painted by his Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur 159In a Large Greek Colony, 200 BC 160A Prince from Western Libya 162Cimon, Son of Learchos, Twenty-two Years of Age, Student of Greek Literature (in Cyrene) 163On the March to Sinope 164Days of 1909, 1910 and 1911 165Myres: Alexandria, AD 340 166Alexander Jannaeus and Alexandra 169Lovely Flowers, White Ones, That Matched So Well 170Come, O King of the Lacedaemonians 171In the Same Space 172The Mirror in the Entrance Hall 173He Asked About the Quality 174They Should Have Taken the Time 175Following the Recipes of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians 177In the Year 200 BC 178Days of 1908 180In the Environs of Antioch 182Nares 185Index of Titles 211Index of First Lines 216
\ E. M. ForsterOne of the greatest poets of our time.\ \ \ \ \ W. H. AudenEver since I was first introduced to his poetry . . . Cavafy has remained an influence on my writing.\ \
