Hero, priestess of Venus at Sestos, and Leander of Abydos fall in love across the narrow strait of the Hellespont. Marlowe’s two sestiads tell of their meeting at a festival, their courtship and Leander’s swim to her tower, in sensuous, witty couplets full of mythological digressions.
The finest narrative poem of the Elizabethan age, left unfinished at Marlowe’s death in 1593. Download the free EPUB.