Cultural Depictions of Cleopatra VII - Poetry

Poetry

  • "Dead Cleopatra Lies in a Crystal Casket" (1917) by Conrad Aiken
  • "Cerchio II, Canto V" by Dante Alighieri (from Inferno)
  • "Клеопатра" by Anna Akhmatova
  • "Cléopâtre" (1670) by Isaac de Benserade
  • "Cleopatrie Martiris, Egipti Regine" by Geoffrey Chaucer (from The Legend of Good Women)
  • "Cleopatra" by Robert Crawford
  • "La Cleopatra" (1632) by Girolamo Graziani
  • "Antoine et Cléopâtre" (from Les Trophées, 1878–1887) by José-Maria de Heredia
  • "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1960) by Ted Hughes
  • "Antony and Cleopatra" (1857) by William Haines Lytle
  • "Au jardin de l’infante, Cléopâtre" (1893) by Albert Samain
  • "Early in the Morning" (1955) by Louis Simpson
  • "After Reading Antony and Cleopatra" (1890) by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "Cleopatra" (1868) by William Wetmore Story
  • "Cleopatra" (1864) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • "Cleopatra to the Asp" (1897) by John B. Tabb

Read more about this topic:  Cultural Depictions Of Cleopatra VII

Famous quotes containing the word poetry:

    “A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.”
    —Hamlin Garland (1860–1940)