“If You Loved Me”, “To the Ladies”, The Beyzade to His Lady-Love”, “Even as Are the Generations of Leaves”
GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F01-SF001-0062 (43)
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GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F01-SF001-0062 (43)
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“If You Loved Me”, “To the Ladies”, The Beyzade to His Lady-Love”, “Even as Are the Generations of Leaves”
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Four manuscripts of poems on a paper folded to form a bifolio. In the first page, the poem “If You loved Me”, with the note “From the French” below the title. In the second page, the poem “To the Ladies [Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more]”, with verses from Shakespeare as motto. In the third page, the poem “The Beyzade to His Lady-Love”, with a note at the bottom explaining the word “Beyzade”. In the fourth page, the poem “Even as Are the Generations of Leaves”, with a Turkish proverb as motto. Signed: “C.P.C.”. In all poems, underlined title and line in red ink at the end.
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Mainly Greek
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Thin paper. Blue and red ink. Physical item wear: tears in two places, oxidations.
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“If You Loved Me” >Α52
“To the Ladies” >Α524
“The Beyzade to his Lady-Love” >Α524
“Elegy of the Flowers” >Α33
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The “Even as Are the Generations of Leaves” is the title of the first form of the poem “Elegy of the Flowers”. Shakespeare’s verses are from “Much ado about nothing”.
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Cavafy, C. P.. “If You Loved Me, To the Ladies, The Beyzade to His Lady-Love, Even as Are the Generations of Leaves”. Poem (manuscript), n.d.. GR-OF CA CA-SF01-S01-F01-SF001-0062 (43), Onassis Foundation C. P. Cavafy Fonds. From The Digital Collection of the Cavafy Archive, edited by Onassis Foundation, Athens, last modified 01.10.2025. https://doi.org/10.26256/CA-SF01-S01-F01-SF001-0062.
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