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Hero and Leander
Christopher Marlowe
It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.
hen two are stript long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should...
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Hero And Leander
Friedrich Schiller
See you the towers, that, gray and old,
Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold,
 Steep sternly fronting steep?
The Hellespont beneath them swells,...
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Hero and Leander
John Donne
Both robb'd of air, we both lie in one ground ;
Both whom one fire had burnt, one water...
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Hero And Leander. The Fifth Sestiad
George Chapman
Thought an Olympiad in Leander's...
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Hero And Leander. The Fourth Sestiad
George Chapman
Now from Leander's place she rose, and found
Her hair and rent robe scatter'd on the ground;
Which taking up, she every piece did lay
Upon an altar,...
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Hero And Leander. The Sixth Sestiad
George Chapman
No longer could the Day nor Destinies
Delay the Night, who now did frowning rise
Into her throne; and at her humorous breasts
Visions and Dreams lay...
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Hero And Leander. The Third Sestiad
George Chapman
New light gives new directions, fortunes new,
To fashion our endeavours that ensue.
More harsh, at least more hard, more grave and high
Our subject...
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Hero and Leander: The First Sestiad
Christopher Marlowe
On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood,
In view and opposite two cities stood,
Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might;
The one Abydos, the...
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Hero And Leander: The Second Sestiad
Christopher Marlowe
Viewing Leander's face, fell down and...
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Sonnet. On A Picture Of Leander
John Keats
Come hither all sweet Maidens soberly
Down looking aye, and with a chasten'd light
Hid in the fringes of your eyelids white,
And meekly let your...
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