The First Step (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: "I've been writing for two years now and I've composed only ...
The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: "I've been writing for two years now and I've composed only ...
I did not restrain myself. I let go entirely and went. To the pleasures that were half real and half ...
Half past twelve. Time has gone by quickly since nine o'clock when I lit the lamp and sat down here. ...
You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I ...
I love the church: its labara, its silver vessels, its candleholders, the lights, the ikons, the pulpit. Whenever I go ...
When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don't mourn your luck that's ...
Honor to those who in the life they lead define and guard a Thermopylae. Never betraying what is right, consistent ...
The years of my youth, my sensual life -- how clearly I see their meaning now. What needless repentances, how ...
In these darkened rooms, where I spend oppresive days, I pace to and fro to find the windows. -- When ...
It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome and ...
As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, ...
What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in ...
At the back of the noisy café bent over a table sits an old man; a newspaper in front of ...
The days of our future stand in front of us like a row of little lit candles -- golden, warm, ...
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
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