Sir Guyon
05-08-2014, 09:21 PM
Hello everyone, I recently published a verse drama on Amazon, it is called A Love Untold: A Tragedy The story follows the ill-starred elopement of two young Romans, Claudia, daughter of emperor Nero, and Caius, the son of an equestrian sentator. Below, I have a sample of some of the poetry found throughout the play. Nearly the entire first two acts are available on the kindle preview. I will be very grateful to all who choose to purchase or review my play. I have set the price at a mere $0.99
Caius: Look at the man as he works this soil
He sweats to cultivate this land
Drops of water from his toil
Growing red and green the freshest grapes
To fill his master’s cups and plates.
Claudia: Sad it seems I must say so
But Caius love keep thine mind on our design.
If wanders too much does thine eyen
Thou and I shalt be food for swine.
Caius: Worry not that it will hap
We are safe to stare in secrecy.
Need we not rush beyond
The fanged briars and the brush.
Here we can take sweet rest
Forgetting not our happiness.
Claudia: Dear, need we not in this villa lay
Our wearied wings too long.
Nero’s sight is swift and strong
And his beams will burn us quite
Not again to take our flight
Into the air of truest liberty.
Caius: Where then do you think we should wait?
Claudia: First love, we find these farmer’s garbs
Then we take what silver we do see.
Move we most swiftly from this place
After theft does make us sweetly safe.
Caius: Love, like I not to hear such words
They pierce my heart and poison the pulse.
Steal, my love? With that there is the surety
That we would feel the flames
Of all the heaven’s hate
To touch another’s plate
With unwelcome hands.
The gods forbid it.
Claudia: The gods will thee spare.
The time does call to leave such law.
Besides we did so by touching our tongues.
Why bow ye to dead decrees?
Caius: My gut does pierce with the pure proclamation
To do so is to slight the gods
Not man.
Those injunctions flow with life
And flow too will our blood
Into the dust most bitter
To sate the crimson rose
A thorny fate to feel.
The laws from which we loosened our lives
Were man’s alone, not God’s.
And so we favor can find
And live a fate sublime
Unfettered by the tyranny.
Caius: Look at the man as he works this soil
He sweats to cultivate this land
Drops of water from his toil
Growing red and green the freshest grapes
To fill his master’s cups and plates.
Claudia: Sad it seems I must say so
But Caius love keep thine mind on our design.
If wanders too much does thine eyen
Thou and I shalt be food for swine.
Caius: Worry not that it will hap
We are safe to stare in secrecy.
Need we not rush beyond
The fanged briars and the brush.
Here we can take sweet rest
Forgetting not our happiness.
Claudia: Dear, need we not in this villa lay
Our wearied wings too long.
Nero’s sight is swift and strong
And his beams will burn us quite
Not again to take our flight
Into the air of truest liberty.
Caius: Where then do you think we should wait?
Claudia: First love, we find these farmer’s garbs
Then we take what silver we do see.
Move we most swiftly from this place
After theft does make us sweetly safe.
Caius: Love, like I not to hear such words
They pierce my heart and poison the pulse.
Steal, my love? With that there is the surety
That we would feel the flames
Of all the heaven’s hate
To touch another’s plate
With unwelcome hands.
The gods forbid it.
Claudia: The gods will thee spare.
The time does call to leave such law.
Besides we did so by touching our tongues.
Why bow ye to dead decrees?
Caius: My gut does pierce with the pure proclamation
To do so is to slight the gods
Not man.
Those injunctions flow with life
And flow too will our blood
Into the dust most bitter
To sate the crimson rose
A thorny fate to feel.
The laws from which we loosened our lives
Were man’s alone, not God’s.
And so we favor can find
And live a fate sublime
Unfettered by the tyranny.