Selections of Cavafy's poems appeared only in pamphlets, privately printed booklets and broadsheets during his lifetime. The first publication in book form was "Ποιήματα" (Poiēmata, "Poems"), published posthumously in Alexandria, 1935.
Volumes with translations of Cavafy's poetry in English include:
- Poems by C. P. Cavafy, translated by John Mavrogordato (London: Chatto & Windus, 1978, first edition in 1951)
- The Complete Poems of Cavafy, translated by Rae Dalven, introduction by W. H. Auden (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961)
- The Greek Poems of C.P. Cavafy As Translated by Memas Kolaitis, two volumes (New York: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, 1989)
- Complete Poems by C P Cavafy, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn, (Harper Press, 2013)
- Passions and Ancient Days - 21 New Poems, Selected and translated by Edmund Keeley and George Savidis (London: The Hogarth Press, 1972)
- Poems by Constantine Cavafy, translated by George Khairallah (Beirut: privately printed, 1979)
- C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, edited by George Savidis, Revised edition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992)
- Selected Poems of C. P. Cavafy, translated by Desmond O'Grady (Dublin: Dedalus, 1998)
- Before Time Could Change Them: The Complete Poems of Constantine P. Cavafy, translated by Theoharis C. Theoharis, foreword by Gore Vidal (New York: Harcourt, 2001)
- Poems by C. P. Cavafy, translated by J.C. Cavafy (Athens: Ikaros, 2003)
- I've Gazed So Much by C. P. Cavafy, translated by George Economou (London: Stop Press, 2003)
- C. P. Cavafy, The Canon, translated by Stratis Haviaras, foreword by Seamus Heaney (Athens: Hermes Publishing, 2004)
- The Collected Poems, translated by Evangelos Sachperoglou, edited by Anthony Hirst and with an introduction by Peter Mackridge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9608762707 2007)
- The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy: A New Translation, translated by Aliki Barnstone, Introduction by Gerald Stern (New York: W.W. Norton, 2007)
- C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems, translated with an introduction by Avi Sharon (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2008)
- Cavafy: 166 Poems, translated by Alan L Boegehold (Axios Press, ISBN 1604190051 2008)
- C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009)
- C. P. Cavafy, Poems: The Canon, translated by John Chioles, edited by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library, ISBN 9780674053267, 2011)
- "C.P. Cavafy, Selected Poems", translated by David Connolly, Aiora Press, Athens 2013
- Clearing the Ground: C.P. Cavafy, Poetry and Prose, 1902-1911, translations and essay by Martin McKinsey (Chapel Hill: Laertes, 2015)
Translations of Cavafy's poems are also included in:
- Lawrence Durrell, Justine (London, UK: Faber & Faber, 1957)
- Modern Greek Poetry, edited by Kimon Friar (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973)
- Memas Kolaitis, Cavafy as I knew him (Santa Barbara, CA: Kolaitis Dictionaries, 1980)
- James Merrill, Collected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002)
- David Ferry, Bewilderment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
- Don Paterson, Landing Light (London, UK: Faber & Faber, 2003)
- Derek Mahon, Adaptations (Loughcrew, Ireland: The Gallery Press, 2006)
- A.E. Stallings, Hapax (Evanston, Illinois: Triquarterly Books, 2006)
- Don Paterson, Rain (London, UK: Faber & Faber, 2009)
- John Ash, In the Wake of the Day (Manchester, UK: Carcanet Press, 2010)
- David Harsent, Night (London, UK: Faber & Faber, 2011)
- Selected Prose Works, C.P. Cavafy, edited and translated by Peter Jeffreys (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010)
