Days of 1903

by

Constantine Cavafy


I never found them again — the things so quickly lost....

the poetic eyes, the pale

face.... in the dusk of the street....


I never found them again — the things acquired quite by chance,

that I gave up so lightly;

and that later in agony I wanted.

The poetic eyes, the pale face,

those lips, I never found again.


(1917)



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