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Constantine P. Cavafy was a Greek poet who lived in Alexandria and worked as a journalist and civil servant. He published 154 poems; dozens more remained incomplete or in sketch form. His most important poetry was written after his fortieth birthday.

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List of poems by Constantine P. Cavafy 189 total

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Kaisarion
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Ionic
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The Ides of March
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Morning Sea
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Walls 134 ViewsRate it
In The Street
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Melancholy Of Jason Kleander, Poet In Kommagini, A.D. 595 132 ViewsRate it
Candles
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A Prince from Western Libya
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September, 1903
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Apollonius Of Tyana In Rhodes 128 ViewsRate it
On the Outskirts of Antioch
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The Horses of Achilles
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Days Of 1896
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Julian Seeing Contempt
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Lovely White Flowers
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On The Stairs
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Caesarion
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Those Who Fought for the Achaean League 123 ViewsRate it
In A Town of Osroini 122 ViewsRate it
King Claudius
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Things Ended 122 ViewsRate it
In an Old Book
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Outside the House
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Orophernis
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I've Looked So Much...
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Pictured
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Unfaithfulness
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Che Fece 115 ViewsRate it
Desires 115 ViewsRate it
Exiles
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On Board Ship
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The Retinue of Dionysos
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King Dimitrios 113 ViewsRate it
Their Beginning
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I´ve Looked So Much…
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Voices
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To Have Taken The Trouble
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The Battle of Magnesia
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Thermopylae 108 ViewsRate it
Waiting for the Barbarians
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Body Remember
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Alexander Jannaios And Alexandra 107 ViewsRate it
He vows
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The City
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The Satrapy
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Kleitos' Illness
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On the shop
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Before The Statue Of Endymion
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The Favour of Alexander Valas 103 ViewsRate it
Julian in Nicomedia
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On an Italian Shore
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Priest at the Serapeum
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To Sensual Pleasure
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Manuel Comninos
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Before Time Altered Them
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Of the Jews (50 A.D.)
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December, 1903
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In Alexandria, 31 B.C. 98 ViewsRate it
Interruption 98 ViewsRate it
You Didn't Understand
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Days of 1901
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Footsteps
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In Church 97 ViewsRate it
Simeon
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Theodotus
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Of Dimitrios Sotir
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Aemilianus Monae, Alexandrian, 628 - 655 A.D. 93 ViewsRate it
At The Theatre 91 ViewsRate it
In The Harbor
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Sculptor of Tyana
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Dangerous Things
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For Ammonis, who died at 29, in 610
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Grey
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He Asked about the Quality
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Anna Dalassené 89 ViewsRate it
The Grave of the Grammarian Lysias 88 ViewsRate it
Supplication
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If Actually Dead
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Since Nine O'Clock
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The Glory of the Ptolemies
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The God Abandons Anthony
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Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians 86 ViewsRate it
Craftsmen of Wine Bowls
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I Went 86 ViewsRate it
The Town
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Monotony 85 ViewsRate it
The Funeral of Sarpedon
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When the Watchman Saw the Light
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Passing Through
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Tomb of Ignatos 83 ViewsRate it
Very Seldom
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To Call up the Shades 82 ViewsRate it
Ithaca
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So Much I Gazed
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Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400 81 ViewsRate it
Prayer
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Returning From Greece
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Return
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Sophist Leaving Syria
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The Footsteps
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Tomb of Evrion
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A Young Poet In His 24th Year
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Days of 1908
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Hidden Things
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Nero's Turn
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He Came to Read
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The Next Table
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In the Tavernas 75 ViewsRate it
Theatre of Sidon (400 B.C.)
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Priest At The Serapeion
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The Afternoon Sun 74 ViewsRate it
In the Same Space
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As much as you can
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Imenos
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On Hearing of Love
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Of Coloured Glass
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'The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down In Hades' 70 ViewsRate it
When they are roused 70 ViewsRate it
Envoys from Alexandria
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And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds
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Dimaratos 68 ViewsRate it
Julian and the Antiochians
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Philhellene 68 ViewsRate it
The Displeasure of Selefkidis
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The Souls Of Old Men
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Two Young Men, 23 to 24 years old
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According To The Formulas Of Ancient Grecosyrian Magi
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Darius
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Growing in Spirit
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In Sparta
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To Antiochos Epiphanis
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Tomb of Lanis
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Young Men of Sidon 62 ViewsRate it
Herodis Attikos 61 ViewsRate it
In The Evening
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One Night
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Far Off 60 ViewsRate it
Trojans
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But Wise Men Perceive Approaching Things 58 ViewsRate it
Longings
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Sensual Pleasures
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Addition 55 ViewsRate it
Ionian 55 ViewsRate it
Remember, Body...
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That's The Man 55 ViewsRate it
The Windows
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A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses
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Days of 1903 51 ViewsRate it
In 200 B.C.
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Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, Student of Greek Literature (In Kyrini)
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Long Ago 51 ViewsRate it
On the March to Sinopi
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He Had Planned To Read
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Picture of a 23-year-old Youth Painted by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amature
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The First Step 50 ViewsRate it
Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias 50 ViewsRate it
Greek from Ancient Times 49 ViewsRate it
The Bandaged Shoulder 47 ViewsRate it
They Should Have Provided 47 ViewsRate it
In Despair
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Antony's Ending
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Alexandrian Kings
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In the Boring Village
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Theophilos Palaiologos
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An Old Man
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Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340
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From The School Of The Renowned Philosopher
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Half an Hour
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In a Township of Asia Minor
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Tomb of Iases
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Understanding
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I've Brought To Art
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The Window of the Tobacco Shop
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At the Café Door 36 ViewsRate it
Hidden
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Of The Shop
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The Photograph
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Following the Recipe of Ancient Syrio-Greek Magicians
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Poseidonians
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The Mirror in the Hall 31 ViewsRate it
In The Month Athyr
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A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen
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John Kantakuzinos Triumphs
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The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life
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When They Come Alive 28 ViewsRate it
Julian at the Mysteries
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Anna Comnena
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One of Their Gods
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