Complete Poems of Cavafy
Publisher: Harcourt
Published: January 1966
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780156210485
First sentence: Like beautiful bodies of the dead who had not grown old and they shut them, with tears, in a magnificent mausoleum, with roses at the head and jasmine at the feet that is how desires look that have passed without fulfillment; without one of them having achieved a night of sensual delight, or a moonlit morn.