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Constantine P. Cavafy
Constantine P. Cavafy was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on April 29, 1863, to Greek parents. After his father's death when Cavafy was a child, the family lost their fortune and social position. They lived for seven years in
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Walls
Without reflection, without mercy, without shame,
they built strong walls and high, and compassed me about.
And here I sit now and consider and despair.
It wears away my heart and brain, this evil fate:
5I had outside so many things to terminate.
Oh! why when they were building could I not beware!
But never a sound of building, never an echo came.
Insensibly they drew the world and shut me out.
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April 29
C. P. Cavafy is born on this day in 1863, and dies on this day in 1933.
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What American poet was the daughter of one governor of Massachusetts, and married to another?
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