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"Tunc praecurrit comis..." *
Years ago, St. Jerome--
Don't give me that look!
I'm NOT off the subject
and this is NOT a shaggy dog story
(though there IS a dog in it)
I'm trying to tell...
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I learned this ballad in my youth.
Perhaps the tale will bring you joy.
Our elders tell our people of
The Fall of Troy.
Great Hektor was a Trojan prince.
'Twixt Greece...
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"How well her name an Army doth present,
In whom the Lord of hosts did pitch his tent!".
"Anagram" from the 1633 edition of George Herbert's The Temple.
An anagram (Greek anagramma 'letters...
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I have transposed nearly all of the poems of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy into English. This is no. 151 of his poetical canon.
151. ANCIENT GRECOSYRIAN SPELLS
Wait for the silence and the...
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Constantine Cavafy 1863-1933, Greek poet living most of his life in Alexandria.
This is probably my favourite of Cavafy's poems, the one where the mundane and the divine most closely intermingle....
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This is the sixty-fifth poem from the Cavafy canon. If you wish to see the whole series you can find it on my You Tube site http://uk.youtube.com/user/cavafyinenglish
65.IN THE EVENING
Experience...
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Constantine Cavafy
69. GAZING
All the beauty I ever saw before
- yes, all of it; none of it abandoned -
has turned into an archetypal image
lost in the creeping foliage of my brain
among thick...
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