The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy. Daniel Mendelsohn

       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

       II: 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