Odysseus Elytis. The Sovereign Sun: Selected Poems. Translated with an introduction and notes by Kimon Friar. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974. vii, 200 p. Reissued in 1980.

ISBN 0877220190 cloth; 9780877220190 cloth; 0877221138 pbk; 9780822932833 pbk

Also Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1990 (ISBN 1852241209 pbk; 9781852241209 pbk)

Contains: Introduction (pp. 3-44).

[From] Orientations [Προσανατολισμοί]: "Of the Aegean", "The Girls Who Trod on the Few" (p. 47); "Breasting the Current", "Adolescence of Day" (p. 48); "Windows toward the Fifth Season" (pp. 48-50).

The Concert of Hyacinths [Η συναυλία των γυακίνθων] (pp. 51-58)

[From] In the Service of the Summer [Η θητεία του καλοκαιριού]: "Anniversary"* (pp. 61-62); "Helen"* (pp. 63-64); "Ode to Santorini" (pp. 64-65); "Marina of the Rocks" (pp. 65-66); "Age of Blue Memory" (p. 67); "Melancholy of the Aegean" (pp. 68-69); "Shape of Boeotia" (pp. 69-70); "Beautiful Girl in a Garden" (pp. 70-71); "The Mad Pomegranate Tree" (pp. 71-72).

[From] Sun the First [Ήλιος ο πρώτος]: "I Know the Night No Longer" (p. 75); "Body of Summer" (pp. 75-76); "Glittering Day, Conch of the Voice" (p. 76); "Drinking the Corinthian Sun" (p. 77); "Below, on the Daisy's Small Threshing Floor" (pp. 77-78); "Child with the Skinned Knee" (p. 78); "Sailor Boy of the Garden" (pp. 79-80); "Half-Sunken Boats" (pp. 80-81); "This Wind That Loiters" (p. 81); "We Walked in the Fields All Day" (pp. 81-82); "The Orange Girl" (pp. 82-83).

Heroic and Elegiac Song for the Lost Second Lieutenant of the Albanian Campaign [Άσμα ηρωικό και πένθιμο για τον χαμένο ανθυπολοχαγό της Αλβανίας] (pp. 85-97). 

Axion Esti [Το Άξιον Εστί] (selections): from 'Genesis': "Genesis III" (p. 101); "Genesis IV" (pp. 102-103); "Genesis V" (pp. 103-104); from 'The Passions': "Psalm I" (p. 105); "Psalm II" (p. 106); "Ode 5" (p. 107); "Ode 7" (p. 108); "Ode 11" (p. 109); "VI Prophetic" (pp. 110-111); "Psalm XVII" (p. 112); "Psalm XVIII" (p. 113); from 'Gloria' (pp. 114-115).

Six and One Remorses for the Sky [Έξη και μία τύψεις για τον ουρανό] (pp. 117-127); Villa Natacha (pp. 129-134); Death and Resurrection of Constandinos Paleologhos (pp. 135-138).

[From] The Light Tree and the Fourteenth Beauty [Το φωτόδεντρο και η δέκατη τέταρτη ομορφιά]: "Palm Sunday" (p. 141); "The Girl the North Wind Brought" (pp. 141-142); "Delos" (p. 142); "Three Times the Truth" (pp. 143-144); "On the Republic" (pp. 144-145); "Little Green Sea", "The Wall Painting" (p. 146); "The Odyssey" (pp. 147-149); "Archetype" (p. 150); "The Light Tree" (pp. 150-153); "Cyclical" (p. 153); "The Garden of the Scorched Hand" (pp. 153-155); "What Can't Be Done" (pp. 155-156).

The Monogram [Το μονόγραμμα] (pp. 157-164).

[From] The Sovereign Sun [Ο ήλιος ο ηλιάτορας] (pp. 165-175).

Notes (pp. 177-187); Bibliography (pp. 189-195); Acknowledgements (pp. 197-200).

*"Anniversary" and "Helen" are not part of In the Service of the Summer, but, respectively, of Orientations and Sporades.