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Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe

10/13/2008 2:58:10 AM
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Christopher Marlowe
(1564-1593)
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Hero and Leander
 
  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 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,
What we behold is censur'd by our eyes.
Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight.

Christopher Marlowe


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Eddie Loughran (1/21/2007 12:56:00 PM)
This poem is wrongly titled!
If you check Marlowe's poems it is listed twice.
It plainly is not about Hero and Leander, but still a very good poem.
His best! ! ?
Egal Bohen (2/11/2006 6:36:00 PM)
The power of this poem lies in the truth of what is said

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