New poems and variant readings/After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra"

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New poems and variant readings (1918)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra"
1911154New poems and variant readings — After Reading "Antony and Cleopatra"1918Robert Louis Stevenson

AFTER READING "ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA"

As when the hunt by holt and field
Drives on with horn and strife,
Hunger of hopeless things pursues
Our spirits throughout life.


The sea's roar fills us aching full
Of objectless desire—
The sea's roar, and the white moon-shine,
And the reddening of the fire.


Who talks to me of reason now?
It would be more delight
To have died in Cleopatra's arms
Than be alive to-night.