Charmian.O eastern star!
Cleopatra.Peace, peace!
Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?
Antony and Cleopatra
Or it can plumb the depths of terror and despair. The following are the words of a condemned wretch shivering on the brink of extinction:
Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
This sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit