Poems

Days of 1908 That was the year when he stayed Without work, for a living played Cards, or backgammon; or borrowed and never paid. He was […]

Desires 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 […]

Envoys from Alexandria They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi as these that had been sent by the two brothers, the rival […]

Exiles It goes on being Alexandria still. Just walk a bit along the straight road that ends at the Hippodrome and you’ll see palaces and monuments […]

Far Off I should like to relate this memory … but it is so faded now … scarcely anything is left — because it lies far […]

Finalities Amid fear and suspicions, with agitated mind and frightened eyes, we melt and plan how to act to avoid the certain danger that so horribly […]

Footsteps On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero — unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the vigor of flesh, and in […]

Grey Looking at an opal, a half-grey opal, I remembered two beautiful grey eyes I had seen it must have been twenty years before . . […]

Half an Hour I never had you, nor will I ever have you I suppose. A few words, an approach as in the bar yesterday, and […]

He Came to Read He came to read. Two or three books are open; historians and poets. But he only read for ten minutes, and gave […]