Poems

Supplication The sea took a sailor to its depths.– His mother, unsuspecting, goes and lights a tall candle before the Virgin Mary for his speedy return […]

The Bandaged Shoulder He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen. But there was probably another reason for the […]

The City You said, “I will go to another land, I will go to another sea. Another city will be found, a better one than this. […]

The First Step The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: “I’ve been writing for two years now and I’ve composed only one idyll. It’s […]

The God Abandons Anthony When suddenly, at midnight, you hear an invisible procession going by with exquisite music, voices, don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, […]

The Grave of the Grammarian Lysias Very close to you, as you enter on the right, in the Beirut library, we buried the sage Lysias, the […]

The Mirror in the Hall The rich house had in the hall An enormous mirror, very old; Bought at least eighty years ago. A very handsome […]

The Satrapy What a misfortune, although you are made for fine and great works this unjust fate of yours always denies you encouragement and success; that […]

The Town You said: “I’ll go to another land, to other seaways wandering, Some other town may yet be found better than this, Where every effort […]

The Windows In these dark chambers here what weary days I spend, walk up and down as in a maze To find the windows.—-Only to unclose […]