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Subject: HERO & LEANDER
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPIGRAM: HERO AND LEANDER, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground
Last Line: Both whom one fire had burnt, one water drownd.
Variant Title(s): Epigrams: Hero And Leander
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander


HERO AND LEANDER, by JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But he, leander, almost half across
Last Line: With fluttering arms she leaped, and joined her drowned love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hunt, Leigh
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero & Leander; Hellespont; Leander


HERO AND LEANDER, by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On hellespont, guilty of true love's blood
Last Line: Danged down to hell her loathsome carriage.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander


HERO AND LEANDER; TO S.T. COLERIDGE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh bards of old! What sorrows have ye sung
Last Line: No meaner sepulchre should hero find!
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander


HERO TO LEANDER, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O go not yet, my love
Last Line: Or I will follow thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander


LEANDER DROWNED, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tho' winds and seas oppose their utmost spite
Last Line: And at return let me your victim die.'
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander


LEANDERS OBSEQUIES, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When as leander young was drown'd
Last Line: But that his teares forbad the rest.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Leander


ON A PICTURE OF LEANDER, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come hither all sweet maidens soberly
Last Line: He's gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath!
Subject(s): Dardanelles; Hero & Leander; Hellespont; Leander


THE LAMP OF HERO, by LOUISE VICTORINE ACKERMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When hero's lover, reckless of the storm
Last Line: To cheer our sinking souls!
Alternate Author Name(s): Choquet, Louise Victorine
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Lamps; Mythology; Leander


THE PIONEER'S FIELD, by RICHARD BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: You walk a sacred ground, tread gently here
Last Line: The fearless planter's worthy monument.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Pioneers; Sacrifices; Leander


TO DELIA: 38, by SAMUEL DANIEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair and lovely maid, look from the shore
Last Line: That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more.
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Kisses; Love; Peace; Leander


WRITTEN AFTER SWIMMING FROM SESTOS TO ABYDOS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If, in the month of dark december
Last Line: For he was drown'd, and I've the ague.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Hero & Leander; Sea; Travel; Leander; Ocean; Journeys; Trips