Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature awhile.
The brilliant blue of the morning sea, of the cloudless sky,
the yellow shore; all lovely,
all bathed in light.

Let me stand here. And let me pretend I see all this
(I really did see it for a minute when I first stopped)
and not my usual day-dreams here too,
my memories, those images of sensual pleasure.


trans. by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

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Poet: Constantine P. Cavafy
Poem: Morning Sea
Volume: Collected Poems, Revised Edition
Year: Published/Written in 1992
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