Collected poems

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cavafy, Constantine, 1863-1933
Other Authors: Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Greek, Modern (1453- )
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Published poems. Poems 1905-1915. The city
  • The satrapy
  • But Wise Men apprehend what is imminent
  • Ides of March
  • Finished
  • The god abandons Antony
  • Theodotus
  • Monotony
  • Ithaca
  • As much as you can
  • Trojans
  • King Demetrius
  • The glory of the Ptolemies
  • The retinue of Dionysus
  • The Battle of Magnesia
  • The Seleucid's displeasure
  • Orophernes
  • Alexandrian kings
  • Philhellene
  • The steps
  • Herodes Atticus
  • Sculptor from Tyana
  • The Tomb of Lysias the Grammarian
  • Tomb of Eurion
  • That is he
  • Dangerous
  • Manuel Comnenus
  • In the church
  • Very rarely
  • In stock
  • Painted
  • Morning sea
  • Song of Ionia
  • In the entrance of the café
  • One night
  • Come back
  • Far off
  • He swears
  • I went
  • Chandelier.
  • Published poems. Poems 1916-1919. Since nine
  • Comprehension
  • In the presence of the statue of Endymion
  • Envoys from Alexandria
  • Aristobulus
  • Caesarion
  • Nero's deadline
  • Safe haven
  • One of their gods
  • Tomb of Lanes
  • Tomb of Iases
  • In a city of Osrhoene
  • Tomb of Ignatius
  • In the month of Hathor
  • For Ammon, who died at 29 years of age, in 610
  • Aemilian son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.
  • Whenever they are aroused
  • To pleasure
  • I've gazed so much
  • In the street
  • The window of the tobacco shop
  • Passage
  • In evening
  • Gray
  • Below the house
  • The next table
  • Remember, body
  • Days of 1903.
  • Published poems. Poems 1919-1933. The afternoon sun
  • To stay
  • Of the Jews (50 A.D.)
  • Imenus
  • Aboard the ship
  • Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)
  • If indeed he died
  • Young men of Sidon (400 A.D.)
  • That they come
  • Darius
  • Anna Comnena
  • Byzantine noble, in exile, versifying
  • Their beginning
  • Favour of Alexander Balas
  • Melancholy of Jason, son of Cleander : poet in Commagene : 595 A.D.
  • Demaratus
  • I brought to art
  • From the school of the renowned philosopher
  • Maker of wine bowls
  • Those who fought on behalf of the Achaean League
  • For Antiochus Epiphanes
  • In an old book
  • In despair
  • Julian, seeing indifference
  • Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene
  • Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)-- Julian in Nicomedia
  • Before time could alter them
  • He came to read
  • The year 31 B.C. in Alexandria
  • John Cantacuzenus triumphs
  • Temethus, an Antiochene : 400 A.D.
  • Of colored glass
  • The 25th year of his life
  • On the Italian seashore
  • In the boring village
  • Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes
  • Cleitus's illness
  • In a municipality of Asia Minor
  • Priest of the Serapeum
  • In the taverns
  • A great procession of priests and laymen
  • Sophist departing from Syria
  • Julian and the Antiochenes
  • Anna Dalassene
  • Days of 1896
  • Two young men, 23 to 24 years old
  • Greek since ancient times
  • Days of 1901
  • You didn't understand
  • A young man, skilled in the art of the word, in his 24th year
  • In Sparta
  • Portrait of a young man of twenty-three done by his friend of the same age, an amateur
  • In a large Greek colony, 200 B.C.
  • Potentate from Western Libya
  • Cimon son of Learchus, 22 years old, teacher of Greek letters (in Cyrene)
  • On the march to Sinope
  • Days of 1909, '10, and '11
  • Myres : Alexandria in 340 A.D.
  • Alexander Jannaeus, and Alexandra
  • Beautiful, white flowers as they went so well
  • Come now, King of the Lacedaemonians
  • In the same space
  • The mirror in the entrance
  • He asked about the quality
  • Should have taken the trouble
  • According to the formulas of ancient Greco-Syrian magicians
  • In 200 B.C.
  • Days of 1908
  • On the outskirts of Antioch.
  • Poems published 1897-1908. Contents of the Sengopoulos notebook. Voices
  • Longings
  • Candles
  • An old man
  • Prayer
  • Old men's souls
  • The first step
  • Interruption
  • Thermopylae
  • Che Fece, Il gran rifiuto
  • The windows
  • Walls
  • Waiting for the Barbarians
  • Betrayal
  • The funeral of Sarpedon
  • The horses of Achilles.
  • Repudiated poems (1886-1898). Brindisi
  • The poet and the Muse
  • Builders
  • Word and silence
  • Sham-el-Nessim
  • Bard
  • Vulnerant omnes, ultima necat
  • Good and bad weather
  • Timolaus the Syracusan
  • Athena's vote
  • The inkwell
  • Sweet voices
  • Elegy of the flowers
  • Hours of melancholy
  • Oedipus
  • Ode and elegy of the streets
  • Near an open window
  • A love
  • Remembrance
  • The death of the Emperor Tacitus
  • The Eumenides' footfalls
  • The tears of Phaëthon's sisters
  • Ancient tragedy
  • Horace in Athens
  • Voice from the sea
  • The Tarentines have their fun
  • The funeral of Sarpedon.
  • Unpublished poems (1877?-1923). The Beyzade to his lady-love
  • Dünya Güzeli
  • When, my friends, I was in love
  • Nichori
  • Song of the heart
  • To Stephanos Skilitsis
  • Correspondences according to Baudelaire
  • [Fragment of an untitled poem]
  • "Nous n'osons plus chanter les roses"
  • Indian image
  • Pelasgian image
  • The hereafter
  • The mimiambs of Herodas
  • Azure eyes
  • The four walls of my room
  • Alexandrian merchant
  • The Lagid's hospitality
  • In the cemetery
  • Priam's march by night
  • Epitaph
  • Displeased theatregoer
  • Before Jerusalem
  • Second odyssey
  • He who fails
  • The pawn
  • Dread
  • In the house of the soul
  • Rain
  • La Jeunesse Blanche
  • Distinguishing marks
  • Eternity
  • Confusion
  • Salome
  • Chaldean image
  • Julian at the mysteries
  • The cat
  • The bank of the future
  • Impossible things
  • Addition
  • Garlands
  • Lohengrin
  • Suspicion
  • Death of a general
  • The intervention of the gods
  • King Claudius
  • The naval battle
  • When the watchman saw the light
  • The enemies
  • Artificial flowers
  • Strengthening
  • September of 1903
  • December 1903
  • January of 1904
  • On the stairs
  • In the theatre
  • Poseidonians
  • The end of Antony
  • 27 June 1906, 2 P.M.
  • Hidden hearing of love
  • "The rest shall I tell in Hades to those below"
  • That's how
  • Homecoming from Greece
  • Fugitives
  • Theophilus Palaeologus
  • And I got down and I lay there in their beds
  • Half an hour
  • House with garden
  • A great feast at the house of Sosibius
  • Simeon
  • The bandaged shoulder
  • Coins
  • It was taken
  • From the drawer.
  • Prose Poems. The regiment of pleasure
  • Ships
  • Clothes.
  • Poems written in English. [More happy Thou, performing member]
  • Leaving Therápia
  • Darkness and shadows.