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Poetry in Translation (CCCLIV), Constantine P. CAVAFY (1853-1933), GREECE/EGYPT: “Return”, “Revino”

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Poetry in Translation (CCCLIV), Constantine P. CAVAFY (1853-1933), GREECE/EGYPT: “Return”, “Revino”

Constantine P. CAVAFI

Constantine P. CAVAFI

Return
Constantine P. Cavafy (1912)

Return often and take me,
beloved sensation, return and take me —
when the memory of the body awakens,
and an old desire runs again through the blood;
when the lips and the skin remember,
and the hands feel as if they touch again.

Return often and take me at night,
when the lips and the skin remember….

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Collected Poems

Collected Poems

Revino
Constantine P. Cavafy (1912)

Revino adesea şi ia-mă,
senzaţie intimă, revino şi ia-mă
când memoria trupului se trezeşte,
şi o veche dorinţă se aprinde din nou în sângele meu;
când buzele şi pielea îşi amintesc,
iar mâinile simt că ar atinge din nou.

Revino adesea şi ia-mă la miezul nopţii,
când buzele şi pielea işi amintesc…

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Alexandria Cavafy House

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