Social Commentaries
Epigram 92. Of Caesar and Cleopatra
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Social Commentaries
Great Caesars vaunt is known to all, who said,
That he did come, look't on, and conquered:
But when to Egypt he did come from Rome,
And saw the Queen, he then was overcome:
But (to prove rather he was not beguil'd)
Her he o'recame; for he got her with childe.
Cite this poem
MLA
Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 92. Of Caesar and Cleopatra.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/136/.
Chicago
Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 92. Of Caesar and Cleopatra.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/136/.
Read this poem with the Codex →