A Prince from Western Libya (Constantine P. Cavafy Poems)
Aristomenis, son of Menelaos,the Prince from Western Libya,was generally liked in Alexandriaduring the ten days he spent there.As his name, ...
Aristomenis, son of Menelaos,the Prince from Western Libya,was generally liked in Alexandriaduring the ten days he spent there.As his name, ...
Brain, work now as well as you can.A one-sided passion is destroying him.He's in a maddening situation.Every day he kisses ...
A procession of priests and laymen-each walk of life represented-moves through streets, squares, and gatesof the famous city, Antioch.At the ...
Full of their success, thoroughly satisfied,King Alexander Jannaiosand his wife Queen Alexandramove through the streets of Jerusalemwith musicians in the ...
The frivolous can call me frivolous.I've always been most punctilious aboutimportant things. And I insistthat no one knows better than ...
They were full of sadness at their parting.That wasn't what they themselves wanted: it was circumstances.The need to earn a ...
Body, remember not only how much you were lovednot only the beds you lay on.but also those desires glowing openlyin ...
I have come from Miletos to Latmoson a white chariot drawn by four snow-white mules,all their trappings silver.I sailed from ...
Something they said beside memade me look toward the caf(Constantine P. Cavafy)
In the golden bull that Alexios Comnenos issuedto prominently honor his mother,the very sagacious Lady Anna Dalassen(Constantine P. Cavafy)
In the golden bull that Alexios Comnenos issued to prominently honor his mother, the very sagacious Lady Anna Dalassené- distinguished ...
With words, with countenance, and with manners I shall build an excellent panoply; and in this way I shall face ...
Just because we've torn their statues down, and cast them from their temples, doesn't for a moment mean the gods ...
Partly to verify an era, partly also to pass the time, last night I picked up a collection of Ptolemaic ...
Valiant are you who fought and fell gloriously; fearless of those who were everywhere victorious. Blameless, even if Diaeos and ...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi as these that had been sent by the two ...
We interrupt the work of the gods, hasty and inexperienced beings of the moment. In the palaces of Eleusis and ...
Nero was not worried when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle. "Let him fear the seventy three years." ...
When one of them passed through the market place of Seleucia, toward the hour that night falls as a tall ...
He finished the painting yesterday noon. Now he studies it in detail. He has painted him in a gray unbuttoned ...
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
The surroundings of home, centers, neighorhood which I see and where I walk; for years and years. I have created ...
Apollonius was talking about proper education and conduct with a young man who was building a luxurious house in Rhodes. ...
What a misfortune, although you are made for fine and great works this unjust fate of yours always denies you ...
The Alexandrians were gathered to see Cleopatra's children, Caesarion, and his little brothers, Alexander and Ptolemy, whom for the first ...
He came to read. Two or three books are open; historians and poets. But he only read for ten minutes, ...
Every so often he vows to start a better life. But when night comes with her own counsels, with her ...
I never found them again -- the things so quickly lost.... the poetic eyes, the pale face.... in the dusk ...
The sea took a sailor to its depths.-- His mother, unsuspecting, goes and lights a tall candle before the Virgin ...
He's an old man. Used up and bent, crippled by time and indulgence, he slowly walks along the narrow street. ...
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