...el breve pero intenso panegírico de Antonio: 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 ¡s gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. (IV. xv. 64-8) El laurel...

...Cleopatra The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O! withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's 0 / -J4 3 4 4 4 0 * ! visiting moon. 10166 Antony and Cleopatra A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you, gods, will...

...boundaries: The crown o' th' earth doth melt. My lord! O, withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now...gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. (IV.xv.63) But in his last moments Antony's Roman rhetoric recovers its martial splendor....

...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...gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. [Faints. Antony, having stabbed himself after his betrayal by Cleopatra and defeat in...

...world-destroying misery, that they trembled and knelt. "O! withered is the garland of the war, the soldier's pole is fall'n! Young boys and girls are level now...gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon!" "Lady . . . Madam!" cried her women, for the Queen had fallen, as if dead. They rubbed...

...that Cleopatra should imagine the undoing of difference in such sharply gendered terms ('The soldier's pole is fall'n; young boys and girls | Are level now with men'); nor that the imagery of melting should link this levelling with the proverbially feminine element,...

...is that Levin's florid impulse to quote from Antony and Cleopatra may be all too despairingly apt: the odds is gone And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. (July 1989) Richard Hayes Richard Hayes's death on January 8 may have been the release...

...life was gone, and what remained of the dose . . . ', and some of Cleopatra's words at Antony's death: 'the odds is gone, / And there is nothing left remarkable / Beneath the visiting moon' (1v. xiv. 66-8). A few pages later there is a similarly fugitive kinship between 'leaving...

...narrator does not mean it to be. 7 Pos t- Verses O! wither 'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n; young boys and girls Are level now...gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. Antony and Cleopatra, ^.15.64-8 BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON While it would be too dramatic...

...cloak in her arms as if it is Antony 's body.) O! wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now...gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon. (Lays Antony's body down.) All's but naught; Patience is sottish, and impatience does...