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Read & copy
“Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?”
Meaning & context
Marlowe’s narrator presents immediate attraction as if genuine love naturally begins at first sight, intensifying the poem’s mythic and fated treatment of desire.
Source details
Hero and Leander, posthumously published in 1598. The sentence is a narrator’s rhetorical claim inside mythological narrative poetry and should not be treated as psychological evidence about how real relationships develop.