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

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