It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.
When two are stripped, long ere the course begin,
We wish that one should love, the other win;
And one especially do we affect
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?
Nem vagy ura, hogy gyűlölj vagy szeress, mert vágyad vize hajt, s az végzetes. Ha két futó feszeng verseny előtt, te választasz már vesztest vagy nyerőt. S ha két egyforma aranyrúd világít, úgy érzed, az egyik szebben világlik. Szemünkön át hatol belénk a villám: a vágy, hiába töprengünk a...
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, Whom young Apollo courted for her hair, And...
From “Tamburlaine” TAMBURLAINE.—But now, my boys, leave off and list to me, That mean to teach you rudiments of war: I ’ll have you learn to sleep upon the ground, March in your armor through watery fens, Sustain the scorching heat and freezing cold, Hunger and thirst, right adjuncts of the...
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or craggy mountains yield. And we will sit upon the rocks, Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And will I...
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 Of two gold ingots, like in each respect: The reason no man knows...
