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Two Choruses from "Anthony and Cleopatra"

Song Cycle by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981)

1. On the death of Antony Sung Text

Note: this is a multi-text setting


Cleopatra
Noblest of men, woo't die?
Hast thou no care of me?  ...  O see, my women,

  (Mark Antony dies)

The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!
O wither'd is the garland of the war,
The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.

(Faints)

Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 15 and Act V, Scene 2, first published 1607

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La mort d'Antoine", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

See also Thomas Pasatieri's setting {link:1116714}Antony and Cleopatra.

Researcher for this page: Ivan Nunes



CLEOPATRA
    I dream't there was an Emperor Antony:
    O, such another sleep, that I might see
    But such another man!

DOLABELLA
    If it might please ye,--

CLEOPATRA
     ... 

DOLABELLA
    Most sovereign creature,--

CLEOPATRA
    His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm
    Crested the world:  ...  his delights
    Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above
    The element they lived in:  ... 

DOLABELLA
    Cleopatra!

CLEOPATRA
    Think you there was, or might be, such a man
    As this I dream'd of?

DOLABELLA
    Gentle madam, no.

CLEOPATRA
    You lie, up to the hearing of the gods.
    But, if there be, or ever were, one such,
    It's past the size of dreaming:  ... 

Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Antony and Cleopatra, Scene V, Act 2

See other settings of this text.

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , no title

Note: Mollicone's setting omits all of Dolabella's lines; Barber's includes only "Gentle madam, no". Mollicone's setting ends "As plates dropp'd from his pocket"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]


2. On the death of Cleopatra
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Take up her bed,
She looks like sleep,
As she would catch another Antony
In her strong toil of grace.

Take up her bed,
She looks like sleep,
And bear her women from the monument.
She shall be buried by her Antony.
No grave on earth shall clasp in it
A pair so famous.
Our army shall
In solemn show attend this funeral,
And then to Rome.

Text Authorship:

  • by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Antony and Cleopatra, Act V, Scene 2, first published 1607

Go to the general single-text view

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "La mort de Cléopâtre", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ivan Nunes
Total word count: 240
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