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Hero and Leander. By Christopher Marlowe. The First Sestiad. (excerpt) On Hellespont, guilty of true love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoin'd by Neptune's might; The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair,
By Christopher Marlowe. It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, long ere the course begin, We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect. Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows; let it suffice.
B. 1564 D. 1593. 'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight' Christopher Marlowe, 'Hero and Leander' Share Poet. Copy to clipboard. Biography Poems Books & Awards. Home. Explore. Poets. Biography. Marlowe is believed to have written all his poems and translations as a young man studying at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Elegies, Book One, 5. By Christopher Marlowe. after Ovid. In summer’s heat and mid-time of the day. To rest my limbs upon a bed I lay, One window shut, the other open stood, Which gave such light as twinkles in a wood, Like twilight glimpse at setting of the sun. Or night being past, and yet not day begun.
This long-awaited updated and revised edition of his poems and translations contains his complete lyric works—from his translations of Ovidian elegies to his most famous poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” to the impressive epic mythological poem “Hero and Leander.”
1564 –. 1593. Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove. That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls. Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses.
Words 2,575. Followers 1. '''Christopher Marlowe''', also known as '''Kit Marlowe''' (baptised 26 February 1564– 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day.
