Categories poet poetry reading splendid spring very “My soul found some ease; the poor thing, it’s / always constrained by the weight of the years.” Post author By Kirby Post date March 11, 2019 2 Comments on “My soul found some ease; the poor thing, it’s / always constrained by the weight of the years.” CAVAFY, It Must Have Been the Spirits (February 1919) Translated by DANIEL MENDELSOHN Share this:TwitterFacebookTumblrPinterestPrintEmailLike this:Like Loading... Tags cavafy, danielmendelsohn By Kirby Poet. Book Fairy. Publisher knife | fork | book View Archive → ← The joy that is → TWO LAUREATES: GEOFFREY JAMES + ANNE MICHAELS MARCH 22ND 2 replies on ““My soul found some ease; the poor thing, it’s / always constrained by the weight of the years.”” Cavafy… it doesn’t get better LikeLike Did not know until I read it how much I needed this today. Thanks. LikeLike Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
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Cavafy… it doesn’t get better
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Did not know until I read it how much I needed this today. Thanks.
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