Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds on which you lay,
but also those desires for you
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: C.P. Cavafy, desire, Edmund Keeley, Greek, love poetry, memory, Philip Sherrard, translation
Body, remember not only how much you were loved,
not only the beds on which you lay,
but also those desires for you
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: C.P. Cavafy, desire, Edmund Keeley, Greek, love poetry, memory, Philip Sherrard, translation
As you set out for Ithaka
hope the voyage is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: C.P. Cavafy, Edmund Keeley, imagery, instructive poems, mythology, Philip Sherrard, translation, travel