A Yearning Heart (Antony and Cleopatra)

Themes: Antony and Cleopatra, Desire, Dramatic, Shakespeare
Length: 30 Seconds
Gender: Female

[Cleopatra, alone in her chambers, speaks with passionate longing for Antony. Her voice is rich with emotion, her movements dramatic and expressive, as she imagines Antony thinking of her and the intense connection they share.]

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!
Do bravely, horse! for wot’st thou whom thou movest?
The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm
And burgonet of men. He’s speaking now,
Or murmuring ‘Where’s my serpent of old Nile?’
For so he calls me: now I feed myself
With most delicious poison. Think on me,
That am with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black
And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted Caesar,
When thou wast here above the ground, I was
A morsel for a monarch: and great Pompey
Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow;
There would he anchor his aspect and die
With looking on his life.