The Selected Poems of Cavafy by C. P. Cavafy
Author:C. P. Cavafy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141916088
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2008-12-15T00:00:00+00:00
Heâs lost him for good, as if heâd never existed.
The boy wished â so he said â he wished to be freed
from the stigma and reproach of that unhealthy pleasure;
from the stigma and reproach of that shameful pleasure.
It wasnât too late â he said â for him to break free.
Heâs lost him for good, as if heâd never existed.
Through imagination, and self-delusion,
he seeks those lips on the lips of others;
heâs trying to feel that lost love again.
Julian, Seeing the Contempt
âSeeing, therefore, the great contempt
in which we hold the gods,â he says with such a serious air.
Contempt? What did he expect?
Let him reorganize the religion as he likes.
Let him counsel the High Priest of Galatia
or other such men, exhorting and directing them.
His friends were not Christians, that much was certain.
Unlike him (a Christian born and bred)
they would never aspire to dabble
in the formation of a newfangled church,
as ludicrous in concept as in application.
They were Greeks after all. Remember, Augustus â
nothing in excess.
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