Category: Poetry
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 other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair, And offered as a dower his burni...
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 other Sestos hight. At Sestos...
2. Chapter 2By this, sad Hero, with love unacquainted, Viewing Leander’s face, fell down and fainted. He kissed her and breathed life into her lips, Wherewith as one displeased away she tri...