Craftsmen of Wine Bowls
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
On this wine bowl—pure silver,
made for the house of Herakleidis,
where good taste is the rule—
notice these graceful flowers, the streams, the thyme.
In the center I put this beautiful young man,
naked, erotic, one leg still dangling
in the water. O memory, I begged
for you to help me most in making
the young face I loved appear the way it was.
This proved very difficult because
some fifteen years have gone by since the day
he died as a soldier in the defeat at Magnesia.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 91 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
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