Item 0002 (2212) - “C. P. Cavafy Poems”

30.5 x 19 cm

Poetry collection by Cavafy (Γ5) comprising 77 poems from the period of 1915-1926. Paperboard folded in half used as front and back cover. Title “C. P. Cavafy Poems. Alexandria 1915-1926” is printed on the front cover; the date is corrected in ink. The end date indication noted in ink, initially as “1922”, then corrected to “1926”. On the inside, the information of the front cover is repeated on the title page. The end date indication is noted in ink, “1922”. Cavafy’s written dedication to N. Zelita in ink on recto of the second leaf. Next are printed broadsheets with the poems, numbered on the top right on recto (page 46 is missing). The page numbers are printed and in some pages corrected in ink. Handwritten note “(400 A.D.)” in ink next to the title of the poem “Young Men of Sidon”. P. 50 spelling error correction on the publication date in ink. P. 50-52 date indication “1929” struck through in ink. P. 55 second erasure of the word “μελαγχολικές” (“melancholic”) to “ανιαρές” (“dull”) in ink. All broadsheets are printed at the Kasimatis & Ionas printing house during the period of 1919-1926. Poems are followed by a blank leaf and a printed table of contents with chronological order in two columns. 3 poems are added to the table in ink.

Greek

Writing in ink. Physical item wear: oxidations, humidity stains, paperclip hole on the top left of every sheet.

“But Wise Men Apprehend What Ιs Imminent” >A385
“Theodotus” >A138
“In the Entrance of the Café” >A152
“He Swears” >A195
“One Night” >A141
“Sea of the Morning” >A141
“Painted” >A141
“Orophernes” >Α142
“The Battle of Magnesia” >Α142
“Manuel Comnenus” >Α142
“The Seleucid's Displeasure” >Α142
“Whenever They Are Aroused” >Α145
“In the Street” >Α160
“In the Presence of the Statue of Endymion” >Α581
“In a City of Osrhoene” >Α152
“Passage” >Α160
“For Ammon, Who Died at 29 Years of Age, in 610” >Α160
“One of Their Gods” >Α160
“In Evening” >Α152
“To Pleasure” >Α164
“Gray” >Α147
“Tomb of Iases” >Α147
“In the Month of Hathor” >Α147
“I’ve Gazed So Much–” >Α147
“Tomb of Ignatius” >Α160
“Days of 1903” >Α160
“The Window of the Tobacco Shop” >Α249
“Caesarion” >Α160
“Remember, Body” >Α153
“Tomb of Lanes” >Α153
“Comprehension” >Α153
“Nero's Deadline” >Α158
“Envoys from Alexandria” >Α162
“Aristobulus” >Α159
“Safe Haven” >Α159
“Aemilian Son of Monaës, an Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.” >Α162
“Since Nine–” >Α162
“Below the House” >Α163
“The Next Table” >Α163
“The Afternoon Sun” >Α164
“To Stay” >Α232
“Of Jews (50 A.D.)” >Α165
“Imenus” >A165
“Aboard the Ship” >Α179
“Of Demetrius Soter (162-150 B.C.)” >Α167
“If Indeed He Died” >Α171
“Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)” >A171
“That They Come” >A179
“Darius” >A344
“Anna Comnena” >A241
“Byzantine Noble, in Exile, Versifying” >A179
“Their Beginning” >A201
“Favour of Alexander Balas” >Α181
“Melancholy of Jason, Son of Cleander: Poet in Commagene: 595 A.D.” >Α191
“Demaratus” >Α192
“Ι Brought to Art” >Α181
“From the School of the Renowned Philosopher” >Α191
“Maker of Wine Bowls” >Α581
“For Anitiochus Epiphanes” >Α364
“In an Old Book–” >Α216
“In Despair” >Α581
“Julian, Seeing Indifference” >Α386
“Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Commagene” >Α620
“Theater of Sidon (400 A. D.)” >Α249
“Julian in Nicomedia” >Α225
“Before Time Could Alter Them” >Α225
“He Came to Read–” >Α234
“The Year 31 B.C. in Alexandria” >Α234
“John Cantacuzenus Triumphs” >Α249
“Temethus, an Antiochene: 400 A.D.” >Α255
“Of Colored Glass” >Α259
“The 25th Year of His Life” >Α259
“On the Italian Seashore” >Α259
“In the Boring Village”>Α309
“Apollonius of Tyana in Rhodes” >Α281
“Cleitus's illness” >Α282
“Those Who Fought on Behalf of the Achaean League” >Α222

Cavafy, C. P.. ““C. P. Cavafy Poems””. Poems (collection), 1915-1926. GR-OF CA CA-SF03-F37-0002 (2212), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds (Post-2012 Acquisitions). From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF03-F37-0002.

Collection Γ5.