Constantine P. Cavafy: Walls

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Walls

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by Constantine P. Cavafy
(1863 - 1933) Timeline

English version by
George Barbanis

Original Language
Greek

Secular or Eclectic

19th Century

Without consideration, without pity, without shame
they have built great and high walls around me.

And now I sit here and despair.
I think of nothing else: this fate gnaws at my mind;

for I had many things to do outside.
Ah why did I not pay attention when they were building the walls.

But I never heard any noise or sound of builders.
Imperceptibly they shut me from the outside world.

Themes

Sound

Recommended Books

	C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, by Constantine P. Cavafy / Translated by Edmund Keely
	Cavafy: A Biography, by Robert Liddell
	Cavafy's Alexandria, by Edmund Keely
	The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded Edition, by Constantine P. Cavafy / Translated by Rae Dalven

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