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The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry - 19. ...he swears...

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He Swears

 

Now and again he swears

To commence a cleaner life,

But when the night comes

With its dark promptings,

Its uncertainties and its enterprises;

When the night comes

With its own dominion

Over the body, he returns, [yearning] and searching,

Lost, to that same [bittersweet] delight.

—C. P. Cavafy[i]

1915

 

 

[Sam Steward]

 

 

 


[i] “He Swears” C. P. Cavafy, Sam Steward translation reprinted in Secret Historian (New York 2010), p. 317

https://archive.org/details/secrethistorianl0000spri/page/316/mode/2up

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Just the tip of Cavafy's beautiful iceberg of Gay poetry, but the translator here will be featured in the next installment of the prose version of the Mirror. Please be on the look out for it :)

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1 hour ago, Parker Owens said:

This hits close, so close to the bone. I could hear the voice of the poet in my ear. 

Cavafy and Steward would both be thrilled to hear this resonates, dear friend 

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