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 loves extreme,
Leander-like,yea! dive from brim to brim.”
—John Davies (c.15651618)
“On Hellespont guiltie of True-loves blood,
In view and opposit two citties stood,
Seaborders, disjoind by Neptunes might:
The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.”
—Christopher Marlowe (15641593)