I didn’t find them any more
Days of 1903
I never found them again -all lost so quickly…
the poetic eyes, the pale face…
in the darkening street…
I didn’t find them any more -mine entirely by chance,
and so easily given up,
then longed for so painfully.
The poetic eyes, the pale face,
those lips –I didn’t find them any more.
Constantine P. Cavafy (1917)
C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems, Translated by Edmund Keely and Philip Sherrard, Edited by George Savidis,, Chatto &Windus, London 1998
