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Hero’s Beauty From the First Sestiad of “Hero and Leander” ON Hellespont, guilty of true love’s blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune’s might; The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight. At Sestos Hero dwelt; Hero the fair,... Poet: Christopher Marlowe	Beauty crowds me till I die Beauty crowds me till I die Beauty mercy have on me But if I expire today Let it be in sight of thee — Poet:	Beauty — be not caused — It Is — Beauty — be not caused — It Is — Chase it, and it ceases — Chase it not, and it abides — Overtake the Creases In the Meadow — when the Wind Runs his fingers thro' it — Deity will see to it... Poet:	Estranged from Beauty — none can be — Estranged from Beauty — none can be — For Beauty is Infinity — And power to be finite ceased Before Identity was leased. Poet:
I died for Beauty — but was scarce I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I... Poet:	Poems of Charles Baudelaire/Beauty I am as lovely as a dream in stone, And this my heart where each finds death in turn, Inspires the poet with a love as lone As clay eternal and as taciturn. Swan-white of heart,... Poet:	To tell the Beauty would decrease To tell the Beauty would decrease To state the Spell demean — There is a syllable-less Sea Of which it is the sign — My will endeavors for its word And fails, but entertains A Rapture as of Legacies —... Poet: