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Feb 19, 2024 · Lord Byron All for Love Summary. Stanza I. O talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty. Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty. These lines reflects on the fleeting nature of fame and glory.
All For Love. by Lord Byron. O talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty. Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
All for Love. by George (Lord) Byron. O TALK not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and-twenty. Are worth all your laurels though ever so plenty.
May 25, 2023 · In this epic love story, Lord Byron tells the heartbreaking story of his life and love. From his humble beginnings to his meteoric rise to fame, Byron sacrif...
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- Act I
- VENTIDIUS. Well, I dare.
- VENTIDIUS. So am I.
- VENTIDIUS. Emperor.
- VENTIDIUS. I did.
- ANTONY. Why?
- VENTIDIUS. You laugh.
- ANTONY. I am.
- VENTIDIUS. No more.
- VENTIDIUS. Again?
- Act II
- ANTONY. We must.
- VENTIDIUS. After this,
- Act III
- VENTIDIUS. Speak boldly.
- OCTAVIA. A Roman:
- Act IV
- ANTONY. I cannot.
- CLEOPATRA. Mere poetry.
- CLEOPATRA. Of all your sex,
- VENTIDIUS. No.
- DOLABELLA. Well,
- OCTAVIA. Let it die.
- VENTIDIUS. My lord?
- ANTONY. Thou liest.
- DOLABELLA. Why?
- ANTONY. No more?
- Act V
- SERAPION. No:
- CLEOPATRA. I'll stay.
- CLEOPATRA. Caesar! No,
- VENTIDIUS. Do it bravely.
- CHARMION. 'Tis done.
To the Right Honourable, Thomas, Earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer, and Baron Osborne of Kiveton, in Yorkshire; Lord High Treasurer of England, one of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. My Lord, The gratitude of poets is so troublesome a virtue to great men, that you are often in danger of y...
The death of Antony and Cleopatra is a subject which has been treated by the greatest wits of our nation, after Shakespeare; and by all so variously, that their example has given me the confidence to try myself in this bow of Ulysses amongst the crowd of suitors, and, withal, to take my own measures, in aiming at the mark. I doubt not but the same ...
Scene I.−−The Temple of Isis Enter SERAPION, MYRIS, Priests of Isis SERAPION. Portents and prodigies have grown so frequent, That they have lost their name. Our fruitful Nile Flowed ere the wonted season, with a torrent So unexpected, and so wondrous fierce, That the wild deluge overtook the haste Even of the hinds that watched it: Men and...
But I'll observe him first unseen, and find Which way his humour drives: The rest I'll venture. [Withdraws.] Enter ANTONY, walking with a disturbed motion before he speaks ANTONY. They tell me, 'tis my birthday, and I'll keep it With double pomp of sadness. 'Tis what the day deserves, which gave me breath. Why was I raise...
ANTONY. I would be private: leave me. VENTIDIUS. Sir, I love you, And therefore will not leave you. ANTONY. Will not leave me! Where have you learnt that answer? Who am I? VENTIDIUS. My emperor; the man I love next Heaven: If I said more, I think 'twere scare a sin: You're all that's good, and god−like. ANTONY. All that's wretched. You will not lea...
ANTONY. Emperor! Why, that's the style of victory; The conqu'ring soldier, red with unfelt wounds, Salutes his general so; but never more Shall that sound reach my ears. VENTIDIUS. I warrant you. ANTONY. Actium, Actium! Oh!−− VENTIDIUS. It sits too near you. ANTONY. Here, here it lies a lump of lead by day, And, in my short, distracted, nightly slu...
ANTONY. I'll help thee.−−I have been a man, Ventidius. VENTIDIUS. Yes, and a brave one! but−− ANTONY. I know thy meaning. But I have lost my reason, have disgraced The name of soldier, with inglorious ease. In the full vintage of my flowing honours, Sat still, and saw it prest by other hands. Fortune came smiling to my youth, and wooed it, And purp...
VENTIDIUS. You are too sensible already Of what you've done, too conscious of your failings; And, like a scorpion, whipt by others first To fury, sting yourself in mad revenge. I would bring balm, and pour it in your wounds, Cure your distempered mind, and heal your fortunes. ANTONY. I know thou would'st.
ANTONY. I do, to see officious love. Give cordials to the dead. VENTIDIUS. You would be lost, then?
VENTIDIUS. I say you are not. Try your fortune. ANTONY. I have, to the utmost. Dost thou think me desperate, Without just cause? No, when I found all lost Beyond repair, I hid me from the world, And learnt to scorn it here; which now I do So heartily, I think it is not worth The cost of keeping. VENTIDIUS. Caesar thinks not so; He'll thank you for ...
ANTONY. Thou dar'st not trust my passion, but thou may'st; Thou only lov'st, the rest have flattered me. VENTIDIUS. Heaven's blessing on your heart for that kind word! May I believe you love me? Speak again. ANTONY. Indeed I do. Speak this, and this, and this. [Hugging him.] Thy praises were unjust; but, I'll deserve them, And yet mend all...
ANTONY. I've done: In that last sigh she went. Caesar shall know what 'tis to force a lover From all he holds most dear. VENTIDIUS. Methinks, you breathe Another soul: Your looks are more divine; You speak a hero, and you move a god. ANTONY. Oh, thou hast fired me; my soul's up in arms, And mans each part about me: Once again, That noble eagerness ...
Scene I Enter CLEOPATRA, IRAS, and ALEXAS CLEOPATRA. What shall I do, or whither shall I turn? Ventidius has o'ercome, and he will go. ALEXAS. He goes to fight for you. CLEOPATRA. Then he would see me, ere he went to fight: Flatter me not: If once he goes, he's lost, And all my hopes destroyed. ALEXAS. Does this weak passion Become a might...
CLEOPATRA. Who says we must? ANTONY. Our own hard fates. CLEOPATRA. We make those fates ourselves. ANTONY. Yes, we have made them; we have loved each other, Into our mutual ruin. CLEOPATRA. The gods have seen my joys with envious eyes; I have no friends in heaven; and all the world, As 'twere the business of mankind to part us, Is armed against my ...
I think she'll blush at nothing. CLEOPATRA. You seem grieved (And therein you are kind) that Caesar first Enjoyed my love, though you deserved it better: grieve for that, my lord, much more than you; For, had I first been yours, it would have saved My second choice: I never had been his, And ne'er had been but yours. But Caesar first, You say, poss...
Scene I At one door enter CLEOPATRA, CHARMION, IRAS, and ALEXAS, a Train of EGYPTIANS: at the other ANTONY and ROMANS. The entrance on both sides is prepared by music; the trumpets first sounding on Antony's part: then answered by timbrels, etc., on CLEOPATRA'S. CHARMION and IRAS hold a laurel w...
Yours, he would say, in your declining age, When no more heat was left but what you forced, When all the sap was needful for the trunk, When it went down, then you constrained the course, And robbed from nature, to supply desire; In you (I would not use so harsh a word) 'Tis but plain dotage. ANTONY. Ha! DOLABELLA. 'Twas urged too home.−− But yet t...
A name, that makes and can unmake a queen. CLEOPATRA. Your lord, the man who serves me, is a Roman. OCTAVIA. He was a Roman, till he lost that name, To be a slave in Egypt; but I come To free him thence. CLEOPATRA. Peace, peace, my lover's Juno. When he grew weary of that household clog, He chose my easier bonds. OCTAVIA. I wonder not Your bonds ar...
Scene I Enter ANTONY and DOLABELLA DOLABELLA. Why would you shift it from yourself on me? Can you not tell her, you must part?
could pull out an eye, and bid it go, And t'other should not weep. O Dolabella, How many deaths are in this word, DEPART! dare not trust my tongue to tell her so: One look of hers would thaw me into tears, And I should melt, till I were lost again. DOLABELLA. Then let Ventidius; He's rough by nature. ANTONY. Oh, he'll speak too harshly; He'll kill ...
Your Roman wits, your Gallus and Tibullus, Have taught you this from Cytheris and Delia. DOLABELLA. Those Roman wits have never been in Egypt; Cytheris and Delia else had been unsung: I, who have seen−−had I been born a poet, Should choose a nobler name. CLEOPATRA. You flatter me. But, 'tis your nation's vice: All of your country Are flatterers, an...
I soonest could forgive you, if you should. VENTIDIUS. Most delicate advances! Women! women! Dear, damned, inconstant sex! CLEOPATRA. In the first place, I am to be forsaken; is't not so? DOLABELLA. I wish I could not answer to that question. CLEOPATRA. Then pass it o'er, because it troubles you: I should have been more grieved another time. Next I...
I sought him; but I heard that he was private, None with him but Hipparchus, his freedman. DOLABELLA. Know you his business? VENTIDIUS. Giving him instructions, And letters to his brother Caesar.
He must be found. [Exeunt DOLABELLA and CLEOPATRA.] OCTAVIA. Most glorious impudence! VENTIDIUS. She looked, methought, As she would say−−Take your old man, Octavia; Thank you, I'm better here.−− Well, but what use Make we of this discovery?
VENTIDIUS. I pity Dolabella; but she's dangerous: Her eyes have power beyond Thessalian charms, To draw the moon from heaven; for eloquence, The sea−green Syrens taught her voice their flattery; And, while she speaks, night steals upon the day, Unmarked of those that hear. Then she's so charming, Age buds at sight of her, and swells to youth: The h...
ANTONY. A word in private.−− When saw you Dolabella? VENTIDIUS. Now, my lord, He parted hence; and Cleopatra with him. ANTONY. Speak softly.−−'Twas by my command he went, To bear my last farewell. VENTIDIUS. It looked indeed [Aloud.] Like your farewell. ANTONY. More softly.−−My farewell? What secret meaning have you in those words Of−−My f...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
CLEOPATRA. Now seat me by my lord. I claim this place, For I must conquer Caesar too, like him, And win my share of the world.−−Hail, you dear relics Of my immortal love! O let no impious hand remove you hence: But rest for ever here! Let Egypt give His death that peace, which it denied his life.−− Reach me the casket. IRAS. Underneath the fruit Th...
May 6, 2017 · Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles): O talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory; And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and ...
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