Hellespont

Famous quotes containing the word hellespont:

    If there were, oh! an Hellespont of cream
    Between us, milk-white mistress, I would swim
    To you, to show to both my love’s extreme,
    Leander-like,—yea! dive from brim to brim.
    John Davies (c.1565–1618)

    On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood,
    In view and opposit two citties stood,
    Seaborders, disjoin’d by Neptunes might:
    The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.
    Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)