Poems by Constantine Cavafy
But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things
... Because gods perceive future things, men what is happening now, ...
Pictured
... recovering through art from the effort of creating it ...
Monotony
... And the morrow ends up not resembling a morrow anymore ...
In Harbor
... he whispered something about "home," about "very old parents ...
So Much I Gazed
... and it falls, slightly, over white foreheads ...
Hidden
... this much care and this much effort to know me ...
Priest At The Serapeum
... who died the day before yesterday, just before dawn ...
Trojans
... Above, on the walls, the mourning has already begun ...
Anna Comnena
... "to the the bones and the marrow and the cleaving of the soul ...
Of The Shop
... When a buyer enters the shophe takes from the cases other wares and sells -- superb jewels -- ...
Finalities
... and unprepared -- there is no more time -- carries us off ...
Addition
... that in the great addition (their addition that I abhor) ...
According To The Formulas Of Ancient Grecosyrian Magi
... its potency can last), or even for a short time ...
Very Seldom
... to the share in youth that still belongs to him ...
In 200 B.C.
... "Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--"We can very well imagine ...
