Constantine P. Cavafy Poems (English)
Here you can find the complete list and read all of Cavafy's "published" poems (154) and a few of his unpublished ones.
Please note that the poems are divided in chronological categories.
1896-1904
[1897] Walls
[1897] An Old Man
[1897] The Horses of Achilles
[1898] Prayer
[1898] The Funeral of Sarpedon
[1899] Candles
[1899] The First Step
[1901] The Souls of Old Men
[1901] Che fece .... il gran rifiuto
[1901] Interruption
[1903] The Windows
[1903] Thermopylae
[1904] Unfaithfulness
[1904] Waiting For The Barbarians
[1904] Voices
[1904] Longings
1905-1915
[1905] Trojans
[1906] King Dimitrios
[1907] The Retinue of Dionysos
[1908] Monotony
[1909] The Footsteps
[1909] That's The Man
[1910] The City
[1910] The Satrapy
[1911] The Ides of March
[1911] Things Ended
[1911] Sculptor of Tyana
[1911] The God Abandons Antony
[1911] Ionic
[1911] The Glory of the Ptolemies
[1911] Ithaka
[1911] Dangerous Thoughts
[1912] Philhellene
[1912] Herodis Attikos
[1912] Alexandrian Kings
[1912] Come Back
[1912] In Church
[1913] Very Seldom
[1913] As Much As You Can
[1913] For The Shop
[1913] I Went
[1914] Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias
[1914] Tomb of Evrion
[1914] Chandelier
[1914] Long Ago
[1915] But The Wise Perceive Things About To Happen
[1915] Theodotos
[1915] At the Cafe Door
[1915] He Swears
[1915] One Night
[1915] Morning Sea
[1915] Pictured
[1915] Orophernis
[1915] The Battle of Magnesia
[1915] Manuel Komninos
[1915] The Displeasure of Selefkidis
1916-1918
[1916] When They Come Alive
[1916] In The Street
[1916] Before The Statue of Endymion
[1917] In A Town of Osroini
[1917] Passing Through
[1917] For Ammonis, who died at 29, in 610
[1917] One of their Gods
[1917] In The Evening
[1917] To Sensual Pleasure
[1917] Grey
[1917] Tomb of Iasis
[1917] In the Month of Athyr
[1917] I've Looked So Much...
[1917] Tomb of Ignatios
[1917] Days of 1903
[1917] The Window of the Tobacco Shop
[1918] Kaisarion
[1918] Body, Remember...
[1918] Tomb of Lanis
[1918] Understanding
[1918] Nero's Deadline
[1918] Envoys From Alexandria
[1918] Aristovoulos
[1918] In The Harbour
[1918] Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, A.D. 628-655
[1918] Since Nine O'Clock
[1918] Outside the House
[1918] The Next Table
1919-1933
[1919] The Afternoon Sun
[1919] Comes to Rest
[1919] Of the Jews (A.D. 50)
[1919] Imenos
[1919] On Board Ship
[1919] Of Dimitrios Sotir (162-150 B.C.)
[1920] If Actually Dead
[1920] Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400)
[1920] To Call Up the Shades
[1920] Dareios
[1920] Anna Komnina
[1921] A Byzantine Nobleman in Exile Composing Verses
[1921] Their Beginning
[1921] The Favour of Alexander Valas
[1921] Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595
[1921] Dimaratos
[1921] I've Brought to Art
[1921] From the School of the Renowned Philosopher
[1921] Craftsman of Wine Bowls
[1922] Those Who Fought for the Achaian League
[1922] To Antiochos Epiphanis
[1922] In an Old Book
[1923] In Despair
[1923] Julian Seeing Contempt
[1923] Epitaph of Antiochos, King of Kommagini
[1923] Theatre of Sidon (A.D. 400)
[1924] Julian in Nicomedia
[1924] Before Time Altered Them
[1924] He Had Planned To Read
[1924] In Alexandria, 31 B.C.
[1924] John Kantakuzinos Triumphs
[1925] Temethos, Antiochian, A.D. 400
[1925] Of Coloured Glass
[1925] The Twenty-Fifth Year of His Life
[1925] On An Italian Shore
[1925] In the Boring Village
[1925] Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes
[1926] Kleitos' Illness
[1926] In A Township of Asia Minor
[1926] Priest At The Serapeion
[1926] In the Tavernas
[1926] A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen
[1926] Sophist Leaving Syria
[1926] Julian and the Antiochians
[1927] Anna Dalassini
[1927] Days of 1896
[1927] Two Young Men, 23 to 24 years old
[1927] Greek from Ancient Times
[1927] Days Of 1901
[1928] You Didn't Understand
[1928] A Young Poet in his Twenty-Fourth Year
[1928] In Sparta
[1928] Picture of a 23-year-old Painted by his Friend of the same Age, an Amateur
[1928] In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.
[1928] A Prince From Western Libya
[1928] Kimon, Son of Learchos, 22, Student of Greek Literature (In Kyrini)
[1928] On the March to Sinopi
[1928] Days of 1909, '10, and '11
[1929] Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340
[1929] Alexander Jannaios and Alexandra
[1929] Lovely White Flowers
[1929] Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians
[1929] In the Same Space
[1930] The Mirror In The Front Hall
[1930] He Asked about the Quality
[1930] To Have Taken The Trouble
[1931] Following The Recipe Of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians
[1931] In The Year 200 B.C.
[1932] Days of 1908
[1933] On the Outskirts of Antioch
Unpublished poems
[1896] Julian at the Mysteries
[1899] King Claudius
[1900] When the Watchman Saw the Light
[1903] Growing in Spirit
[1904] September, 1903
[1904] December, 1903
[1904] On The Stairs
[1904] At The Theatre
[1906] Poseidonians
[1907] Antony's Ending
[1908] Hidden Things
[1911] On Hearing of Love
[1913] "The Rest I Will Tell to Those Down In Hades"
[1913] The Photograph
[1914] Returning From Greece
[1914] Exiles
[1914] Theophilos Palaiologos
[1915] And I Lounged and Lay on Their Beds
[1917] Half An Hour
[1917] Simeon
[1919] The Bandaged Shoulder
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