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Kavafis, Konstantinos: Heswears (Ομνύει in English)

Portre of Kavafis, Konstantinos

Ομνύει (Greek)

Ομνύει κάθε τόσο   ν’ αρχίσει πιό καλή ζωή.
Αλλ’ όταν έλθει η νύχτα    μέ τές δικές της συμβουλές,
μέ τούς συμβιβασμούς της    καί μέ τές υποσχέσεις της
αλλ’ όταν έλθει η νύχτα    μέ τήν δική της δύναμι
τού σώματος πού θέλει καί ζητεί, στήν ίδια
μοιραία χαρά, χαμένος, ξαναπιαίνει.



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Heswears (English)

Quite often he swears   to start a better life.
But when the night comes   with its own advisories,
with its compromises,   and with its promises;
when the night comes   with its own power
over the body that craves and seeks,
to the same dark joy, forlorn, he returns.



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Source of the quotationhttp://authormanolis.wordpress.com

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