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When They Come Alive
By C.P. Cavavfy
Tranlsated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
Try to keep them, poet,
those erotic visions of yours,
however few of them there are that can be stilled.
Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
Try to hold them, poet,
when they come alive in your mind
at night or in the noonday brightness.
By C.P. Cavavfy
Tranlsated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley & Philip Sherrard
Try to keep them, poet,
those erotic visions of yours,
however few of them there are that can be stilled.
Put them, half-hidden, in your lines.
Try to hold them, poet,
when they come alive in your mind
at night or in the noonday brightness.