This poem says rather sexistly that "like untuned golden strings all women are, which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar.
This poem says rather sexistly that "like untuned golden strings all women are, which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar." A celebrated portion of this poem observes that "It lies not in our power to love or hate," and asks "Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?" It ends by describing a woman who "danged down to hell her loathsome carriage." This poem is divided into two sestiads, a type of canto named for the city that it is partly set in. (*) Neptune mistakes one of the title characters of this poem for Ganymede and drags him to the bottom of the ocean. This poem, which was completed by George Chapman, ends after the naked second title character, a youth from Abydos, knocks on the tower of the first, a priestess of Venus, after emerging from the Hellespont. For 10 points, name this Christopher Marlowe poem that retells a Greek myth about a pair of lovers.
This poem says rather sexistly that "like untuned golden strings all women are, which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar.
Hero and Leander 