Poem
Constantine Cavafy
LONG AGO
I’d like to speak of this memory…but it’s so faded now…as though nothing is left—
because it was so long ago, in my early adolescent years.
A skin as though of jasmines…
that August evening— was it August?—
I can still just recall the eyes: blue, I think they were…
Ah yes, blue: a sapphire blue.
From: Collected poems
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1992
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LONG AGO
I’d like to speak of this memory…but it’s so faded now…as though nothing is left—
because it was so long ago, in my early adolescent years.
A skin as though of jasmines…
that August evening— was it August?—
I can still just recall the eyes: blue, I think they were…
Ah yes, blue: a sapphire blue.
From: Collected poems
Publisher: 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton
Publisher: 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton
LONG AGO
I’d like to speak of this memory…but it’s so faded now…as though nothing is left—
because it was so long ago, in my early adolescent years.
A skin as though of jasmines…
that August evening— was it August?—
I can still just recall the eyes: blue, I think they were…
Ah yes, blue: a sapphire blue.
From: Collected poems
Publisher: 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton
Publisher: 1992, Princeton University Press, Princeton
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