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DAYS OF 1896 by CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY

First Line: HE'D BECOME COMPLETELY DEGRADED. HIS EROTIC TENDENCIES
Last Line: ABOVE HIS REPUTATION? BUT SOCIETY, %TOTALLY NARROW-MINDED, HAD ALL ITS VALUES WRONG
Subject(s): HOMOSEXUALITY;

Poem Sources:

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF HOMOSEXUAL VERSE.
  COOTE, STEPHEN (ED.)
  (1983)
 
COLLECTED POEMS. EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD (TRS.)
  CAVAFY, C. P.
  (1992)
 
THE ESSENTIAL CAVAFY. (EDMUND KEELEY AND PHILIP SHERRARD TRS.)
  CAVAFY, C. P.
  (1995)
 



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