• "Hero and Leander", a poem by Musaeus Grammaticus
• "Hero and Leander", a couplet by John Donne
• "Hero and Leander", a poem begun by Christopher Marlowe and completed by George Chapman
• "Hero and Leander" (1819), a poem by James Henry Leigh Hunt

Works about Hero and Leander

• "Hero and Leander," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)