A name for ever!—lying robed and crowned,
Worthy a Roman spouse.”
Tennyson (A Dream of Fair Women).
Helen of Troy and Cleopatra—but, as Peacock mentioned in Gryll Grange, Cleopatra was of pure Greek descent and could not have been a “swarthy” lady.
One pond of water gleams;
... the trees bend
O’er it as wild men watch a sleeping girl.
R. Browning (Pauline).