• Here, charmian, take my bracelets:
      They bar with a purple stain
    My arms; turn over my pillows—
      They are hot where I have lain:
    Open the lattice wider,
      A gauze o’er my bosom throw,
    And let me inhale the odors
      That over the garden blow.

    I dreamed I was with my Antony,
      And in his arms I lay;
    Ah, me! the...

  • Here Charmian, take my bracelets:
      They bar with a purple stain
    My arms; turn over my pillows—
      They are hot where I have lain:
    Open the lattice wider,
      A gauze o’er my bosom throw,
    And let me inhale the odors
      That over the garden blow.

    I dreamed I was with my Antony,
      And in his arms I lay;
    Ah, me! the...