Poetic Openings : Constantine P. Cavafy to Constantine P. Cavafy
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : Footsteps :
First Line : On an ebony bed decorated
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : Half An Hour :
First Line : I never had you, nor will I ever have you
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : He Came To Read :
First Line : He came to read. Two or three books
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : He Vows :
First Line : Every so often he vows to start a better life.
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : Hidden :
First Line : From all I've done and all I've said
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : Hidden Things :
First Line : Let them not seek to discover who I was
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : I Went :
First Line : I did not restrain myself. I let go entirely and went.
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : In 200 B.c. :
First Line : "Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--"
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : In Church :
First Line : I love the church: its labara,
Poet : Constantine P. Cavafy :
Poem : In Harbor :
First Line : A young man, twenty eight years old, on a vessel from Tenos,
