10.26256/CA-SF03-F27-0004
C. P. Cavafy
Poetry collection
Onassis Foundation Cavafy Archive
2019
Archive
Broadsheet
Poem (printed)
Poems (collection)
Publication
Aboard the Ship
Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.
An Old Man
Anna Comnena
Aristobulus
Below the House
But Wise Men Apprehend What Is Imminent
Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying
Caesarion
Comprehension
Darius
Days of 1903
Demaratus
Envoys from Alexandria
Favour of Alexander Balas
For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610
From the School of the Renowned Philosopher
Gray
He Swears
I Brought to Art
I've Gazed So Much—
If Indeed He Died
Imenus
In a City of Osrhoene
In Evening
In the Entrance of the Café
In the Month of Hathor
In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion
In the Street
Maker of Wine Bowls
Manuel Comnenus
Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D.
Morning Sea
Nero's Deadline
Of Demetrius Soter (165-150 B.C.)
Of the Jews (50 A.D.)
One Night
One of Their Gods
Orophernes
Painted
Passage
Remember, Body
Safe Haven
Since Nine–
That They Come–
The Afternoon Sun
The Battle of Magnesia
The Next Table
The Seleucid's Displeasure
The Window of the Tobacco Shop
Their Beginning
Theodotus
To Pleasure
To Stay
Tomb of Iases
Tomb of Ignatius
Tomb of Lanes
Whenever They Are Aroused
Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)
Onassis Foundation Cavafy Archive
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Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ5) comprising 68 printed broadsheets with 58 poems. The sheets are numbered at top right (2-58). The numbering is printed but in most sheets it has been crossed out and corrected by hand. There is no cover or title page. Printed page with table of contents on the recto, containing poems of the period 1915-1920 in two columns. Titles of 1920 and 1921 poems added by Cavafy at the end of the second column and on the verso. The broadsheets were printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house in Alexandria during the 1917-1921 period, using fonts of different sizes and on papers of various qualities and colours. Handwritten emendations by Cavafy in the text of three poems and in the date of two others. Holes at top left of all sheets caused by metal paperclip.