Return

Constantine P. Cavafy

Return often and take me,
beloved sensation, return and take me --
when the memory of the body awakens,
and an old desire runs again through the blood;
when the lips and the skin remember,
and the hands feel as if they touch again.

Return often and take me at night,
when the lips and the skin remember....

Next 10 Poems

• Constantine P. Cavafy : Since Nine O'clock
• Constantine P. Cavafy : So Much I Gazed
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Supplication
• Constantine P. Cavafy : The Bandaged Shoulder
• Constantine P. Cavafy : The City
• Constantine P. Cavafy : The First Step
• Constantine P. Cavafy : The God Abandons Antony
• Constantine P. Cavafy : The Satrapy
• Constantine P. Cavafy : The Windows
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Thermopylae

Previous 10 Poems

• Constantine P. Cavafy : Remember, Body...
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Priest At The Serapeum
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Poseidonians
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Pictured
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Picture Of A 23-year-old Youth Painted By His Friend Of The Same Age, An Amature
• Constantine P. Cavafy : One Of Their Gods
• Constantine P. Cavafy : On An Italian Shore
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Of The Shop
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Nero's Term
• Constantine P. Cavafy : Morning Sea