My life’s joy and incense: recollection of those hours when I found and captured sensual pleasure as I wanted it. My life’s joy and incense: that I refused all indulgence in routine love affairs.
Reprinted from C.P. CAVAFY: Collected Poems Revised Edition, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis. Translation copyright © 1975, 1992 by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Princeton University Press. For reuse of these translations, please contact Princeton University Press.
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