Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904. | | | | II. Love’s Nature | | Love | | Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) |
| | From “Hero and Leander”
IT lies not in our power to love or hate, | |
| For will in us is over-ruled by fate. | |
| When two are stript long e’er the course begin, | |
| We wish that one should lose, the other win; | |
| And one especially do we affect | 5 |
| Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: | |
| The reason no man knows; let it suffice, | |
| What we behold is censured by our eyes. | |
| Where both deliberate, the love is slight: | |
| Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight? | 10 | | | |
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