| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 9920 |
| QUOTATION: | Leander, who was nightly wont (What maid will not the tale remember?) To cross thy stream, broad Hellespont! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824), British poet. Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos (l. 24). . .
The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Byron Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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