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Sensual Pleasures

by Constantine P. Cavafy

Constantine P Cavafy

My life's joy and incense: recollection of those hours
when I found and captured pleasure as I wanted it.
My life's joy and incense: that I refused
all indulgence in routine love affairs.




Quotes of the Day

Inspiration and genius - one and the same

• Victor Hugo



Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    The Friendly Trees
    by Henry van Dyke
    I will sing of the bounty of the big trees, They are the green tents of the Almighty, He hath set them up for comfort and for shelter. Their cords hath he knotted in the earth,