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Excerpts from the poems of C.P. Cavafy (translated by Keeley/Sherrard)
Alexandria
Joined October 2019
He’s completely devoted to books—.but he’s twenty-three, and very good-looking.
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When the body’s memory awakens.and an old longing again moves into the blood.
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As you set out for Ithaka.hope the voyage is a long one,.full of adventure, full of discovery.
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My life’s joy and incense: that I refused.all indulgence in routine love affairs.
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The room opened out on the garden,.and a delicate odor of flowers.mingled with the scent.of the five perfumed young Sidonians.
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One candle is enough. Tonight the room.should not have too much light.
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So now he spends his days full of anxiety,.advising the Persians, explaining.what they should do to conquer Greece.
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O memory, I begged.for you to help me most in making.the young face I loved appear the way it was.
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I will give anyone who wants them.the lion and the horses, the coral Pan,.the elegant palace, the gardens of Tyre.
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But when the great crisis comes,.our boldness and resolution vanish;.our spirit falters, paralyzed.
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Art knows how to shape forms of Beauty,.almost imperceptibly completing life.
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He was just, wise, courageous. In addition he was that best of things, Hellenic.
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But through all his distress, all the turmoil,.the poetic idea comes and goes insistently.
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May you stop at Phoenician trading stations.to buy fine things.
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Why are the streets and squares emptying so rapidly,.everyone going home so lost in thought?.
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The Alexandrians knew of course.that this was all mere words, all theatre.
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