The Complete Poems of Cavafy

by Cavafy, C. P.

• ISBN13: 9780156198202
• ISBN10: 0156198207
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1976-10-01
• Publisher: Mariner Books

Summary

Cavafy, the foremost modern Greek poet, is a master at presenting a scene, an intense feeling, or an idea in direct, unornamented verse. Many of the poems are openly homosexual. Sixty-three newly translated poems have been added to the widely praised edition which includes the classic poem "Ithaca." Introduction by W. H. Auden. Translated by Rae Dalven.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
W. H. Auden
Before 1911
Desires	3	(1)
Voices	4	(1)
Supplication	5	(1)
The First Step	6	(1)
An Old Man	7	(1)
Candles	8	(1)
Thermopylae	9	(1)
Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto	10	(1)
The Souls of Old Men	11	(1)
Interruption	12	(1)
The Windows	13	(1)
The Trojans	14	(1)
Footsteps	15	(1)
Monotony	16	(1)
Walls	17	(1)
Expecting the Barbarians	18	(2)
Infidelity	20	(1)
The Funeral of Sarpedon	21	(2)
Dionysus and his Crew	23	(1)
The Horses of Achilles	24	(1)
He is the Man	25	(1)
King Demetrius	26	(1)
The City	27	(1)
Satrapy	28	(1)
1911
The Ides of March	29	(1)
The God Forsakes Antony	30	(1)
Finalities	31	(1)
Ionian Song	32	(1)
Sculptor of Tyana	33	(1)
Perilous Things	34	(1)
The Glory of the Ptolemies	35	(1)
Ithaca	36	(2)
1912
Herod of Attica	38	(1)
Philhellene	39	(1)
Alexandrian Kings	40	(2)
In Church	42	(1)
Return	43	(1)
1913
As Much as You Can	44	(1)
Very Seldom	45	(1)
I Went	46	(1)
Of the Shop	47	(1)
1914
The Grave of the Grammarian Lysias	48	(1)
Far Off	49	(1)
The Grave of Eurion	50	(1)
Chandelier	51	(1)
1915
Theodotus	52	(1)
But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things	53	(1)
Morning Sea	54	(1)
At the Cafe Entrance	55	(1)
Orophernes	56	(2)
He Swears	58	(1)
On Painting	59	(1)
One Night	60	(1)
The Battle of Magnesia	61	(1)
Manuel Comnenus	62	(1)
The Displeasure of the Son of Seleucus	63	(1)
1916
On the Street	64	(1)
When They are Roused	65	(1)
Before the Statue of Endymion	66	(1)
1917
Gray	67	(1)
In a Town of Osroene	68	(1)
One of Their Gods	69	(1)
Tomb of Iases	70	(1)
Passage	71	(1)
In the Evening	72	(1)
For Ammonis, Who Died at 29 in 610	73	(1)
In the Month of Athyr	74	(1)
The Tomb of Ignatius	75	(1)
So Much I Gazed	76	(1)
Days of 1903	77	(1)
The Tobacco-Shop Window	78	(1)
Sensual Delight	79	(1)
1918
Caesarion	80	(1)
In Harbor	81	(1)
Body, Remember . . .	82	(1)
The Tomb of Lanes	83	(1)
Nero's Term	84	(1)
The Next Table	85	(1)
Understanding	86	(1)
Envoys From Alexandria	87	(1)
Since Nine O'Clock-	88	(1)
Aristoboulus	89	(2)
At the Foot of the House	91	(1)
Aemilianus Monae Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655	92	(1)
1919
Of the Hebrews (A.D. 50)	93	(1)
To Remain	94	(1)
Imenus	95	(1)
On the Ship	96	(1)
Of Demetrius Soter, 162-150 B.C.	97	(2)
Afternoon Sun	99	(1)
1920
If Dead Indeed	100	(1)
Anna Comnena	101	(1)
For Them to Come	102	(1)
Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400)	103	(1)
Darius	104	(2)
1921
A Byzantine Noble in Exile Writing Verses	106	(1)
Favor of Alexander Balas	107	(1)
I Brought to Art	108	(1)
Their Beginning	109	(1)
Demaratus	110	(2)
An Artisan of Wine-Mixing Bowls	112	(1)
Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander; Poet in Commagene; A.D. 595	112	(2)
From the School of the Renowned Philosopher	114	(1)
1922
To Antiochus Epiphanes	115	(1)
Those Who Fought for the Achaean League	116	(1)
In an Old Book	117	(1)
1923
Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene	118	(1)
Julian Seeing Indifference	119	(1)
Theater of Sidon (A.D. 400)	120	(1)
In Despair	121	(1)
1924
Julian in Nicomedeia	122	(1)
Before Time Changes Them	123	(1)
In Alexandria, 31 B.C.	124	(1)
John Cantacuzenus Triumphs	125	(1)
He Came to Read	126	(1)
1925
By an Italian Shore	127	(1)
Of Colored Glass	128	(1)
Temethos of Antioch, A.D. 400	129	(1)
Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes	130	(1)
In the Monotonous Village	131	(1)
The 25th Year of His Life	132	(1)
1926
Kleitos' Illness	133	(1)
In the Taverns	134	(1)
Sophist Leaving Syria	135	(1)
In a Township of Asia Minor	136	(1)
Julian and The People of Antioch	137	(1)
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen	138	(1)
Priest at the Serapeum	139	(1)
1927
Anna Dalassene	140	(1)
Greek Since Ancient Times	141	(1)
Days of 1901	142	(1)
Two Young Men 23 to 24	143	(1)
Days of 1896	144	(1)
1928
A Young Man in His 24th Year, Skilled in the Art of the Word	145	(1)
In a Famous Greek Colony, 200 B.C.	146	(2)
Picture of a 23-Year-Old Youth Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, An Amateur	148	(1)
Understood Not	149	(1)
Cimon, Son of Learchus, A 22-Year-Old Student of Greek Letters (In Cyrene)	150	(1)
In Sparta	151	(1)
Days of 1909, 1910, 1911	152	(1)
A Sovereign from Western Libya	153	(1)
On the March to Sinope	154	(1)
1929
Myres: Alexandria, A.D. 340	155	(3)
In the Same Space	158	(1)
Alexander Jannaius and Alexandra	159	(1)
Come, O King of the Lacedaemonians	160	(1)
Beautiful Flowers and White That Became Him Well	161	(1)
1930
He Asked About the Quality	162	(1)
They Should Have Cared	163	(2)
The Mirror in the Hall	165	(1)
1931
According to Ancient Formulas of Grecosyrian Magi	166	(1)
In the Year 200 B.C.	167	(2)
1932
Days of 1908	169	(1)
1933
In the Suburbs of Antioch	170	(5)
Early Poems	173	(2)
When, My Friends, I Was In Love	175	(1)
Builders	176	(1)
Bacchic	177	(1)
A Love	178	(3)
The Poet and the Muse	181	(1)
Dunya Guzeli	182	(1)
The Word and Silence	183	(1)
Sham-El-Nessim	184	(2)
Singer	186	(2)
Vulnerant Omnes Ultima Necat	187	(1)
Good and Bad Weather	188	(1)
Elegy of the Flowers	189	(1)
Melancholy Hours	190	(1)
To the Moon	190	(1)
The Inkwell	191	(1)
Athena's Vote	192	(2)
Timolaos the Syracusan	194	(2)
Oedipus	196	(1)
By the Open Window	197	(1)
Ode and Elegy of the Roads	198	(1)
In the House of the Soul	198	(1)
There is a Blessed Joy	199	(1)
Our Dearest White Youth	199	(1)
Addition	200	(1)
The Bank of the Future	200	(1)
Death of the Emperor Tacitus	201	(1)
The Tears of Phaeton's Sisters	202	(2)
Ancient Tragedy	204	(2)
Horace in Athens	206	(1)
The Tarantinians Carouse	206	(1)
Voice from the Sea	207	(2)
Intervention of the Gods	209	(1)
Artificial Flowers	210	(3)
Unpublished Poems	211	(2)
Had You Loved Me	213	(1)
To the Ladies	214	(1)
Beizades to his Sweetheart	215	(1)
The Nichori	216	(1)
Correspondence According to Baudelaire	217	(2)
Menkera's Daughter	219	(1)
``Nous N'Osons Plus Chanter Les Roses''	220	(1)
Indian Image	221	(1)
Pelasgian Image	222	(2)
The Hereafter	224	(1)
The Mimiambi of Herodas	225	(2)
Blue Eyes	227	(1)
The Four Walls of My Room	228	(1)
Alexandrian Merchant	229	(1)
The Hospitality of Lagides	230	(1)
In the Cemetery	231	(1)
Night March of Priam	232	(2)
Epitaph	234	(1)
A Displeased Spectator	235	(1)
Whoever Has Failed	236	(1)
The Pawn	237	(1)
Terror	238	(1)
Rain	239	(2)
Distinguishing Marks	241	(1)
Eternity	242	(1)
Confusion	243	(1)
Forgetfulness	244	(1)
Salome	245	(1)
Chaldaic Image	246	(1)
Julian at the Mysteries	247	(1)
Bouquets	248	(1)
Lohengrin	249	(1)
Suspicion	250	(1)
Death of a General	251	(1)
King Claudius	252	(3)
The Naval Battle	255	(1)
When the Watchman Saw the Light	256	(1)
The Enemies	257	(1)
Theophilos Palaeologos	258	(1)
Invigoration	259	(1)
September 1903	260	(1)
December 1903	261	(1)
January 1904	262	(1)
On the Stairs	263	(1)
At the Theater	264	(1)
Inhabitants of Paestum	265	(1)
The End of Antony	266	(1)
June 27, 1906, 2:00 P.M.	267	(1)
Hidden Things	268	(1)
On Hearing of Love	269	(1)
``Henceforth I Speak in Hades with the Dead''	270	(1)
Thus	271	(1)
Return from Greece	272	(1)
Refugees	273	(1)
And I Reclined and Lay Down on their Beds	274	(1)
Half an Hour	275	(1)
House with a Garden	276	(1)
A Great Feast at the Home of Sosibios	277	(1)
Simeon	278	(1)
The Bandaged Shoulder	279	(1)
Coins	280	(1)
It was Seized	281	(1)
From the Drawer	282	(1)
Biographical Note	283	(7)
Notes	290	(20)
Bibliography	310