| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | V. The Moon | | By David Gray (1838–1861) |
| | | COME, light-foot Lady! from thy vaporous hall, | |
| And, with a silver-swim into the air, | |
| Shine down the starry cressets one and all | |
| From Pleiades to golden Jupiter! | |
| I see a growing tip of silver peep | 5 |
| Above the full-fed cloud, and lo! with motion | |
| Of queenly stateliness, and smooth as sleep, | |
| She glides into the blue for my devotion. | |
| O sovran Beauty! standing here alone | |
| Under the insufferable infinite, | 10 |
| I worship with dazed eyes and feeble moan | |
| Thy lucid persecution of delight. | |
| Come, cloudy dimness! Dip, fair dream, again! | |
| O God! I cannot gaze, for utter pain. | | | | |
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