With gazing, and then wake to find how soon
Joy of the world fades when you fade from sight.
Beholding you I am Endymion,
Lost and immortal in Latmian dreams;
With Dian bending down to look upon
Her shepherd, whose aeonian slumber seems
A moment, twinkling like a starry gem
Among the jewels of her diadem.
As an example of his power for spiritualizing Love, the following sonnet from the same sequence will suffice:—
Last night I crossed the spaces to your side,