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and ecstatic
/Outside was a garden gone wild
which surrounds us
It gives you a glimpse of life
the rhythms of our lives played out in our shared mortality
The Wound by David Harsent NHS and ecstaticPublished 31st July 2025. David Harsent, in this well chosen selection of Cavafy's poems of loss and longing, brings across the clear eyed melancholy of the Greek lines into exquisite English poems, with a poet's finetuned ear: we taste the blood of a lover's wound on a bandage lifted to the lips, imbibe the heavy wine of desire; in dim rooms we ponder the tyranny of light. A. E. Stallings Versions of a great poet's work by another great poet provide
