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SABCL - Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library

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Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Rodogune-Act Four-Scene-1.htm
Act Four   The palace in Antioch. Before the hills.   SCENE I     Cleopatra's chamber. Cleopatra, Zoyla. CLEOPATRA Will he not come this morning ? How my head aches! Zoyla, smooth the pain out of it, my girl, With your deft fingers. Oh, he lingers, lingers! Cleone keeps him still, the rosy harlot Who rules him now. She is grown a queen and reigns Insulting me in my own palace. Yes, He's happy in her arms; why should he care for me Who am only his mother ? ZOYLA Is the pain less at all? CLEOPATRA O, it goes deeper, deeper. Ever new revels, While s
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Act One -Scene-1 .htm
Act One SCENE I   A rocky and surf-beat margin of land walled in with great frown- ing cliffs. Cireas, Diomede. CIREAS Diomede ? You here so early and in this wild wanton weather! DIOMEDE I can find no fault in the weather, Cireas; it is brilliant and frolicsome. CIREAS The rain has wept itself out and the sun has ventured into the open; but the wind is shouting like mad and the sea is still in a mighty passion. Has your mistress Andromeda sent you then with matin-offerings to Poseidon, or are you walking here to whip the red roses in your cheeks redder with the sea-breezes ? DIOMEDE
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Vasavadutta-Act Four-Scene-1.htm
Act Four   SCENE I     A room in the royal apartments. Ungarica, Vasavadutta. UNGARICA Thou singest well; a cry of Vuthsa's art Has stolen into thy song. She takes Vasavadutta on her lap. Look up at me, My daughter, let me gaze into thy eyes And from their silence learn thy treasured thoughts. Thou knowest I can read 'twixt human lids The secrets of the throbbing heart ? I search In Vasavadutta's eyes by what strange skill Vuthsa has crept into my daughter's voice. Thou keepst thy lashes lowered ? thou wilt not let me look ? But that too I can read. VASAVADUTTA O mother, mother mine, Plag
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Vasavadutta-Act Two-Scene-2.htm
SCENE II     A forest-glade in the Vindhya hills. Vicurna, a Captain. VICURNA The hunt rings distant still; but all the way Troops and more troops besiege. Where is Gopalaca ? CAPTAIN . Our work may, yet be rude before we reach Our armies on the frontier. VICURNA That I desire. O whistling of the arrows! I have yet To hear that battle music. CAPTAIN Someone comes, For wild things scurry forth. They take cover. Gopalaca enters. VICURNA Whither so swiftly? You are near the frontier for a banished man, Gopalaca. GOPALACA W
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Vasavadutta-Act Five-Scene-4.htm
SCENE IV     The Avunthian forests; moonlight. Vuthsa, Vasavadutta, Munjoolica. VUTHSA . Thou hast held the reins divinely. We approach Our kingdom's border. MUNJOOLICA But the foe surround. VUTHSA We will break through as twice now we have done. Vicurna comes. Vicurna arrives ascending. VICURNA Vuthsa, yon Rebha asks For parley; is it given? Fid hold him here While by a long masked woodland breach I know Silent we pass their cordon. VUTHSA Force is best. VICURNA Vuthsa, to my mind more; but I would spare Our Vasavadutt
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Eric-Act One-Scene-2.htm
SCENE II     Hertha, Aslaug. ASLAUG Hertha, we dance before the man tonight., Why not tonight? HERTHA Because I do not choose¹ Merely to wound and then be stayed.² ASLAUG                            To near, To strike, while all posterity applauds. For Norway's poets to the end of time Shall sing in praises noble as the theme Of Aslaug's dance and Aslaug's dagger. HERTHA                            Yes, If we succeed; but who will sing the praise Of foiled assassins ? Shall we³ risk defeat ? Shall4 Swegn of Norway roam until the end The desperate snows and forest5 si
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Rodogune-Act One-Scene-3.htm
SCENE III     Cleopatra's antechamber in the palace. Cleopatra seated, Rodogune. CLEOPATRA It is their horsehooves ride into my heart. It shall be done. What have I any more To do with hatred ? Parthian Rodogune, Have you forgotten now your former pomps And princely thoughts in high Persepolis, Or do your dreams still linger near a throne ? RODOGUNE I think all fallen beings needs must keep Some dream out of their happier past, — or else How hard it would be to live! CLEOPATRA O, if some hope survive In the black midst of care, however small, We can live, then only, O t
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Eric-Act Two-Scene-1.htm
Act Two   A room in Eric's house. SCENE I     Hertha, Aslaug. HERTHA See what a keen and fatal glint it has, Aslaug. ASLAUG Hast thou been haunted by a look, O Hertha, has a touch bewildered thee, Compelling memory ? HERTHA Then the gods too work. ASLAUG A marble statue gloriously designed Without that breath our cunning maker gives, One feels it pain to break. This statue breathes! Out of these eyes there looks an intellect That claims us all; this marble holds a heart, The heart holds love. To break it all, to lay This glory of God's m
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/Vasavadutta-Act Three-Scene-4.htm
SCENE IV     The tower-room beside the terrace. Vuthsa on a couch. VUTHSA All that I dreamed or heard of her, her charm Exceeds. She's mine! she has shuddered at my touch; Thrice her eyes faltered as they gazed in mine.                                                 He lies back with closed eyes;                                Munjoolica enters and contemplates him. MUNJOOLICA O golden Love! thou art not of this earth. He too is Vasavadutta's! All is hers, As I am now and one day all the earth. Vuthsa, thou sleep'st not, then. VUTHSA Sleep jealous waits Finding another i
Resource name: /E-Library/Works of Sri Aurobindo/English/SABCL/Collected Plays Part-I_Volume-06/precontent.htm