Hero and LeanderMaddox & Gray, 1927 - 82 Seiten Hero and Leander is a mythological short epic by the famous English writer and dramatist Christopher Marlowe. When Marlowe was killed after being accused of blasphemy, he left the poem unfinished to be later completed by George Chapman. The poem follows the love story between the two Greek mythological characters Hero and Leander which was first narrated in the works of the two ancient poets Musaeus Grammaticus and Ovid. Hero is a priestess of the goddess Venus to whom she has made a vow of chastity, yet she falls in love with Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the narrow sea passage known as the Hellespont. Leander, who promises to cross the Hellespont every night to reach his beloved, gets in trouble with Neptune, the god of the seas. When he eventually comes at Hero's door, he has to make use of his guile and physical beauty to seduce his coy beloved. At this point starts Chapman's contribution to accompany the two lovers until Leander drowns in the sea on his way to Hero. Watching her lover's dead body from her high tower, the latter decides to throw herself and die by his side. |
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... 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 , And offer'd as a dower his burning throne , Where she ...
... 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 , And offer'd as a dower his burning throne , Where she ...
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... stood . Even as , when guady Nymphs pursue the chase , Wretched Ixion's shaggy - footed race , Incens'd with savage heat , gallop amain From steep Pine - bearing mountains to the plain : So ran the people forth to gaze upon her , And ...
... stood . Even as , when guady Nymphs pursue the chase , Wretched Ixion's shaggy - footed race , Incens'd with savage heat , gallop amain From steep Pine - bearing mountains to the plain : So ran the people forth to gaze upon her , And ...
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... stood , There Hero sacrificing turtle's blood , Vail'd to the ground , veiling her eyelids close , And modestly they open'd as she rose : Thence flew Love's arrow with the golden head , And thus Leander was enamoured . Stone still he stood ...
... stood , There Hero sacrificing turtle's blood , Vail'd to the ground , veiling her eyelids close , And modestly they open'd as she rose : Thence flew Love's arrow with the golden head , And thus Leander was enamoured . Stone still he stood ...
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... stood the door , he need not climb ; And she herself , before the pointed time , Had spread the board , with roses strew'd the room , And oft look'd out , and mus'd he did not come . At last he came : O , who can tell the greeting These ...
... stood the door , he need not climb ; And she herself , before the pointed time , Had spread the board , with roses strew'd the room , And oft look'd out , and mus'd he did not come . At last he came : O , who can tell the greeting These ...
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... stood , Where kingly Neptune and his train abode . The lusty god embrac'd him , call'd him " love , " And swore he never should return to Jove : But when he knew it was not Ganymed , For under water he was almost dead , He heav'd him up ...
... stood , Where kingly Neptune and his train abode . The lusty god embrac'd him , call'd him " love , " And swore he never should return to Jove : But when he knew it was not Ganymed , For under water he was almost dead , He heav'd him up ...
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Abydos Alcmane Altar amorous arms Atheism Beauty's blood bosom breast bright bullrushes call'd chaste CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE colours conceits countenance Cupid dear death deeds deity delight Dissembling doth earth Eucharis eyes face fair fair ladies Fates feast figur'd fire flame flew FOURTH SESTIAD gainst GEORGE CHAPMAN goddess gods golden grace hair hand hath heart heaven held hell Hellespont Hero HERO AND LEANDER Hero's sacrifice holy holy fire honour Hymen iron thunders Jove joys kiss kiss'd Leander Leucote light limb live look look'd lov'd love's lovers maid maidenhead Marlowe Musaeus naked naught neck Neptune never night nuptial nymph Peristera pierc'd rites robe rude sacred scarf scrip secret fire sense SESTIAD The Argument Sestos shin'd shine shriek sight slain soul spake spirits star stay'd stood striv'd sweet swim thee thence thou thought torch tower turn'd us'd Venus view'd virgin virtue vow'd vows waves wish'd wrought