C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933). “Days of 1908”. Tr. James Merrill. Read (in Greek and English) by Foteini Dimirouli, with a brief introduction. A reading (4:42 mins.). Bilingual. Part of the British School at Athens' (BSA) new podcast series #21poemsinto21, celebrating modern Greek poetry with authors, translators, and academics reading their favourite poems.
https://youtu.be/jvZGCJNc0ek
From “Days of 1908” by C.P. Cavafy. Tr. James Merrill in Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001): 803-804.
Originally «Μέρες του 1908» (1921;). In Κ.Π. Καβάφης, Τα Ποιήματα: Δημοσιευμένα και Αδημοσίευτα (Δημήτρης Δημηρούλης, επιμ. Εκδόσεις Gutenberg, 2015): 392-393.