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Tables of Contents for Before Time Could Change Them
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xv
Gore Vidal
Introduction: Let All Its Guarded Passion Shine
xxiii
POEMS: 1905--1915
The City
3
1
The Satrapy
4
1
The Wise Sense Imminent Events
5
1
The Ides of March
6
1
Things Run Out
7
1
The God Forsakes Antony
8
1
Theodotos
9
1
Monotony
10
1
Ithaca
11
2
As Long as You Can
13
1
Trojans
14
1
King Dimitrios
15
1
The Glory of the Ptolemies
16
1
Procession of Dionysus
17
1
The Battle of Magnesia
18
1
The Displeasure of Selefkides
19
1
Orophernis
20
2
Alexandrian Kings
22
2
Philhellene
24
1
The Footsteps
25
1
Herodis Attikos
26
1
Tyanan Sculptor
27
1
Tomb of the Grammarian Lysias
28
1
Tomb of Evrion
29
1
That's the Man
30
1
Dangerous Remarks
31
1
Manuel Komninos
32
1
In Church
33
1
Very Seldom
34
1
For the Shop
35
1
Painted
36
1
Morning Sea
37
1
Ionian
38
1
At the Entrance to the Cafe
39
1
One Night
40
1
Return
41
1
Far Off
42
1
He Swears
43
1
I Went
44
1
Chandelier
45
4
POEMS: 1916--1918
Since Nine O'Clock
49
1
Understanding
50
1
Before the Statue of Endymion
51
1
Envoys from Alexandria
52
1
Aristovoulos
53
2
Kaisarion
55
1
Nero's Term
56
1
In the Port
57
1
One of Their Gods
58
1
The Tomb of Lanis
59
1
The Tomb of Iasis
60
1
In a Town of Osroini
61
1
The Tomb of Ignatios
62
1
In the Month of Athyr
63
1
For Ammonis, Who Died at 29, in 610
64
1
Aimilianos Monai, Alexandrian, 628-655 A.D.
65
1
When They Surge, Excited
66
1
Pleasure in the Flesh
67
1
I've Gazed So Long, So Much
68
1
In the Street
69
1
The Tobacco Shop Window
70
1
Passing Through
71
1
In the Evening
72
1
Gray
73
1
Before the House
74
1
The Next Table
75
1
Remember, Body ...
76
1
Days of 1903
77
4
POEMS: 1897--1908 excluded from: POEMS: 1905--1915 and POEMS: 1916--1918
Voices
81
1
Desires
82
1
Candles
83
1
An Old Man
84
1
Prayer
85
1
The Old Men's Souls
86
1
The First Step
87
1
Interruption
88
1
Thermopylae
89
1
Che Fece . . . . Il Gran Rifiuto
90
1
The Windows
91
1
Waiting for the Barbarians
92
2
Unfaithfulness
94
2
The Horses of Achilles
96
1
Walls
97
1
The Funeral of Sarpedon
98
5
UNPUBLISHED POEMS: 1919--1932
1919
The Afternoon Sun
103
1
To Abide
104
1
Of the Jews (50 A.D.)
105
1
Imenos
106
1
From the Ship
107
1
Of Dimitrios Sotir (162--150 B.C.)
108
2
1920
If Actually Dead
110
2
Young Men of Sidon (400 A.D.)
112
1
That They Might Appear
113
1
Dareios
114
2
Anna Komnina
116
1
1921
A Byzantine Gentleman, in Exile, Composing Verses
117
1
Their Origin
118
1
The Favor of Alexander Valas
119
1
Melancholy of Jason Kleander; Poet in Kommagini; 595 A.D.
120
1
Dimaratos
121
2
I've Brought to Art
123
1
From the School of the Renowned Philosopher
124
2
Craftsman of Winebowls
126
1
1922
Those Who Fought for the Achaian Alliance
127
1
Before Antiochus Epiphanis
128
1
In an Old Book
129
1
1923
Desperation
130
1
Julian, Seeing Contempt
131
1
Epitaph of Antiochus, King of Kommagini
132
1
Theater of Sidon (400 A.D.)
133
1
1924
Julian in Nicomedia
134
1
Before Time Could Change Them
135
1
He Came to Read
136
1
31 B.C. in Alexandria
137
1
John Kantakuzinos Triumphs
138
1
1925
Temethos, Antiochian; 400 A.D.
139
1
Of Colored Glass
140
1
The 25th Year of His Life
141
1
On an Italian Shore
142
1
In the Dull and Gloomy Village
143
1
Apollonios of Tyana in Rhodes
144
1
1926
The Illness of Kleitos
145
1
In a Township of Asia Minor
146
1
Priest at the Serapeion
147
1
In the Wineshops
148
1
A Grand Procession of Priests and Laymen
149
1
Sophist Departing from Syria
150
1
Julian and the Antiochians
151
1
1927
Anna Dalassini
152
1
Days of 1896
153
1
Two Young Men, 23 to 24 Years Old
154
2
Greek from Ancient Times
156
1
Days of 1901
157
1
1928
You Didn't Understand
158
1
A Young Man, a Writer-in His 24th Year
159
1
In Sparta
160
1
Picture of a Young Man, Twenty-three, Done by His Friend of the Same Age, an Amateur
161
1
In a Large Greek Colony, 200 B.C.
162
2
A Prince from Western Libya
164
1
Kimon, Son of Learchos, Age 22, Student of Greek Literature (in Kyrini)
165
1
On the March to Sinopi
166
1
Days of 1909, '10, and '11
167
1
1929
Myris: Alexandria, 340 A.D.
168
3
Alexandros Iannaios, and Alexandra
171
1
Flowers White and Beautiful, as Were Most Becoming
172
1
Come, O King of the Lacedaimonians
173
1
In the Same Space
174
1
1930
The Mirror in the Vestibule
175
1
He Asked about the Quality
176
2
They Might Have Bothered
178
2
1931
Following the Formulas of Ancient Greco-Syrian Magicians
180
1
In the Year 200 B.C.
181
2
1932
Days of 1908
183
4
ONE EXTRA: 1933
1933
In the Districts Surrounding Antioch
187
4
HIDDEN POEMS: 1884--1923
1884
Beizades to His Beloved
191
1
Dunya Guzeli
192
1
1885
When, My Friends, I Was in Love
193
2
Nichori
195
1
1886
Epic in the Heart
196
1
Stephanos Skilitsis
197
1
1891
Correspondence According to Baudelaire
198
2
1892
[Fragments of an untitled poem]
200
1
``Nous n'osons plus chanter les roses''
201
1
Indian Image
202
1
Pelasgian Image
203
2
The Hereafter
205
1
The Mimiambi of Herodas
206
2
Blue Eyes
208
1
1893
The Four Walls of My Room
209
1
Alexandrian Merchant
210
1
The Hospitality of Lagides
211
1
In the Cemetery
212
1
Priam's Speeding Forth at Night
213
2
Epitaph
215
1
A Displeased Viewer
216
1
To Jerusalem
217
2
1894
A Second Odyssey
219
2
One Who Has Failed
221
1
The Pawn
222
1
Terror
223
1
In the House of the Soul
224
1
Rain
225
2
1895
La Jeunesse blanche
227
1
Distinguishing Marks
228
1
Eternity
229
1
1896
Confusion
230
1
Salome
231
1
Chaldaic Image
232
1
Julian at the Mysteries
233
1
1897
The Cat
234
1
The Bank of the Future
235
1
What Cannot Be
236
1
Addition
237
1
Bouquets
238
1
1898
Lohengrin
239
1
Suspicion
240
1
1899
Death of a General
241
1
The Intervention of the Gods
242
1
King Claudius
243
3
The Naval Battle
246
1
1900
When the Watchman Saw the Light
247
1
The Enemies
248
1
1903
Artificial Flowers
249
1
Becoming Stronger
250
1
1904
September 1903
251
1
December 1903
252
1
January 1904
253
1
On the Stairs
254
1
At the Theater
255
1
1906
Poseidonians
256
1
1907
The End of Antony
257
1
1908
27 June 1906, 2 P.M.
258
1
Hidden Things
259
1
1911
On Hearing of Love
260
1
1913
``The Rest I Will Tell to Those Below in Hades''
261
1
So
262
1
1914
Return from Greece
263
1
Exiles
264
1
Theophilos Palaiologos
265
1
1915
And I Reclined and Lay on their Beds
266
1
1917
Half an Hour
267
1
House with a Garden
268
1
A Great Feast at the Home of the Sosibios
269
1
Simeon
270
1
1919
The Bandaged Shoulder
271
1
1920
Coins
272
1
1921
Taken
273
1
1923
From the Drawer
274
1
PROSE POEMS FROM HIDDEN POEMS
1894--1897
The Regiment of Pleasure
275
1
1895--1896
The Ships
276
3
1894--1897
Garments
279
4
REJECTED POEMS: 1886--1898
1886
Bacchic
283
1
The Poet and the Muse
284
2
1891
Builders
286
1
1892
Word and Silence
287
1
Sam el Nesim
288
2
Singer
290
1
1893
Vulnerant Omnes, Ultima Necat
291
1
Good and Bad Weather
292
1
1894
Timolaos the Syracusan
293
2
Athena's Vote
295
2
The Inkwell
297
1
Sweet Voices
298
1
1895
Elegy of the Flowers
299
1
Melancholy Hours
300
1
1896
Oedipus
301
1
Ode and Elegy of the Roads
302
1
By an Open Window
303
1
A Love
304
3
Memory
307
1
1897
The Death of the Emperor Tacitus
308
1
The Footsteps of the Eumenides
309
1
The Tears of the Sisters of Phaeton
310
2
Ancient Tragedy
312
2
Horace in Athens
314
1
1898
The Tarantians Divert Themselves
315
1
The Funeral of Sarpedon
316
2
Voice from the Sea
318
2
Notes on Selected Poems
320
34
Publication Acknowledgments
354