<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506589" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cleopatra.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The asp, her baby, on her breast,<br>She falls asleep,<br>Ever, like Antony, to rest<br>While Nile shall keep<br>Its course, and Egypt be a name<br>Whose utterance stirs<br>The shadow on the Roman's fame,<br>His love and hers.<br>Out of the mire and mirth of Time,<br>By thought removed,<br>The life that might have shone sublime,<br>Nor unbeloved —<br>A doting mallard when her sail<br>From Actium flew,<br>He knew her love was, passion-pale,<br>The sword that slew!<br>Ah! even though her love was lust,<br>The swarthy Queen,<br>When her babe gave the mortal thrust,<br>A woman's mien<br>Wore, as her Circean eyes their last<br>Looked on the slave<br>And with her fatal witchery passed<br>Into the grave.<br>She yet shall stand in Beauty's list<br>A thing superb,<br>The Roman's light in Egypt's mist —<br>A lover's verb<br>That through his moods and tenses toned<br>A royal way,<br>And took Death rather than be loaned<br>To Caesar's sway.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Crawford">Robert Crawford</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=506589" data-title="Cleopatra. de Robert Crawford" data-description="The asp, her baby, on her breast, She falls asleep, Ever, like Antony, to rest While Nile shall keep Its course, and Egypt be a name Whose utterance stirs The shadow on the Roman's fame, His love and hers. Out of the mire and mirth of Time, By tho..."></div> </div> </div>

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