10.26256/ca-sf01-s01-f01-sf001-0062

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If You Loved Me, To the Ladies, The Beyzade to His Lady-Love, Even as Are the Generations of Leaves Collection

C. P. Cavafy,
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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