[Vassilis Michaelides and Dimitris Lipertis]. Poems of Cyprus: A Selection from the Work of Vassilis Michaelides and Dimitris Lipertis. Translated by Athan Anagnostopoulos, and adapted by Kinereth Gensler & Ruth Whitman. Intro. by Costas M. Proussis. Published under the auspices of the Council of Europe. [Nicosia]: Printing Office of the Republic of Cyprus, 1970. xv, 120 p.

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Contains: Introduction (pp. viii-xv).

47 poems of Dimitris Lipertis: "Charon Is Absent" (p. 51); "The Hollow of the Olive Tree" (pp. 52-53); "Even a Bishop" (p. 54); "The Grandmother" (pp. 55-56); "Maidservant" (pp. 57-58); "To Our Mother" (pp. 59-60); "If My Heart Were a Black Stone" (p. 61); "The Womanly Graces" (p. 62); "Yialloura" (pp. 63-64); "The Orphans" (pp. 65-66); "The Lazy Man" (pp. 67-68); "Women" (pp. 69-70); "Sunset" (pp. 71-72); "The Paralytic" (pp. 73-74); "The Conceited Girl" (pp. 75-76); "Her Beauty" (p. 77); "Welcome to the Greek Athletes" (pp. 78-79); "Welcome – Blessed Be Your Coming" (pp. 80-82); "The Stepmother" (p. 83); "A Ministrant of Honour" (p. 84); "The Spoiled Haughty Girl" (p. 85); "The Afflicted Mother" (p. 86); "You Protest Indifference" (p. 87); "The Offshoot" (p. 88); "A House Should Have a Firm Foundation" (pp. 89-90); "Knock at the Door of the Church" (pp. 91-92); "Treat Them Sternly" (p. 93); "I See You and Continually Ask" (p. 94); "My Desires" (p. 95); "Black Eyes" (p. 96); "Know-How and Cunning" (pp. 97-98); "Grief's Lodge and Stopping-Place" (p. 99); "Moderation in All Things" (pp. 100-101); "To Her Beauty" (p. 102); "My Answer" (p. 103); "Don't Tease an Old Man" (p. 104); "Beauty" (p. 105); "With One Glance of Your Eyes" (p. 106); "Rain" (p. 107); "Spite Is a Meal and Calumny Is Bread" (p. 108); "If Only You Remembered What I Remember" (pp. 109-110); "For Him Who Is Denied His Love" (pp. 111-112); "A Soft Wind Does Not Make the Leaves Fall" (pp. 113-114); "Is There Another Woman Like You?" (p. 115); "Your Lips" (p. 116); "The Breeze" (p. 117); "The Charitable Man" (p. 118); "October 1931" (pp. 119-120).

And of Vassilis Michaelides: 6 poems (pp. 1-48). See {4.3119}.

The poems were selected by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cyprus through a special committee. Costas M. Proussis supervised the whole edition.