Classic Poem

cleopatra:I dreamed there was an Emperor Antony:
O! such another sleep, that I might see
But such another man.
dolabella:If it might please ye,--
cleopatra:His face was as the heavens, and therein stuck
A sun and moon, which kept their course, and lighted
The little O, the earth.
dolabella:Most sovereign creature,--
cleopatra:His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm
Crested the world; his voice was propertied
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends;
But when he meant to quail and shake the orb,
He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty,
There was no winter in 't, an autumn 'twas
That grew the more by reaping; his delights
Were dolphin-like, they showed his back above
The element they lived in; in his livery
Walked crowns and crownets, realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.
dolabella:Cleopatra,--
cleopatra:Think you there was, or might be, such a man
As this I dreamed of?
dolabella:Gentle madam, no.