Four manuscripts of poems on a paper folded to form a bifolio. In the first page, the poem "If You loved Me", with the note "From the French" below the title. In the second page, the poem "To the Ladies [Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more]", with verses from Shakespeare as motto. In the third page, the poem "The Beyzade to His Lady-Love", with a note at the bottom explaining the word "Beyzade". In the fourth page, the poem "Even as Are the Generations of Leaves", with a Turkish proverb as motto. Signed: "C.P.C.". In all poems, underlined title and line in red ink at the end.
Cavafy, C. P."Elegy of the Flowers"
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The 7th issue of the journal Eikostos Aion published in Alexandria. Cavafy's poem "Elegy of the Flowers" is published on the last page [8]. Signed "Const. F. Cavafy". Photograph of Georgios Averoff on the cover.
Eikostos Aion (journal)Handwritten notes. List of poem titles, most of which are recorded in abbreviated form.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten list of thirteen poems by Cavafy, with reference to the printed media in which they were published. They are the poems "Brindisi", "Vain, vain love", "The Poet and the Muse", "Word and Silence", "Sham-el-Nessim", "Good and Bad Weather", "The Inkwell", "Athena's Vote", "Sweet Voices", "Voice From the Sea", "The Eumenides' Footfalls", "Elegy of the Flowers" and "Candles". The publications cover the period 1886-1900. The list is written on the recto of two sheets by a person other than Cavafy. Blank verso.
[Unidentified]Handwritten titles of poems on the first three pages of a double sheet notepaper. Bibliographical references to the printed media (of the period 1886-1912) in which the poems referred to were published. The last page is blank.
Cavafy, C. P.Handwritten titles of poems by Cavafy, accompanied by bibliographical references, on the verso of a printed broadsheet with fragment of a poem. Cancellations. The citations mention the years "1892/3, 1895-1898, 1901" as well as the printed media in which the poems were published. The broadsheet was printed in 1920.
Cavafy, C. P.