id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 20356 Chapman, George Hero and Leander and Other Poems .txt text/plain 20856 1743 93 Hero and Leander, by Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman So lovely-fair was Hero, Venus' nun, Which, like sweet music, enter'd Hero's ears; God knows, I cannot force love as you do: Hero of love takes deeper sense, Albeit Leander, rude in love and raw, Play'd with a boy so lovely-fair and kind, The tresure which the love-god let him joy (For love is sweet and fair in every thing), Leander's bluntness in his violent love; But love, with all joys crown'd, within doth sit: "Ay me," said she, "that love's sweet life and sense And in her life was dear in Venus' love; O lovely Hero, nothing is thy sin, To see the love Leander Hero bore: Love paints his longings in sweet virgins' eyes: Love paints his longings in sweet virgins' eyes: That Hero and her love may meet. Leander, with Love's complete fleet Thou long time his love did know; ./cache/20356.txt ./txt/20356.txt