Classic Poem

He slept on Latmian pinnacle upraised
'Neath amethystine skies uncrost by cloud;
No ripple rose on sea; no blade was bowed;
Sole in the purple void Love's sapphire blazed.
Selene came, stooped, rose; he woke amazed
In Moonland's fiery silence, where nor loud
Or low breathes hovering wind, or billows crowd
Booming from beds of oceans long erased.
The sun with undeflected arrow seared
The flameless crater's swart and torrid wall;
The silver raiment shrouded Earth afar:
Yet nought Endymion's spirit could appal;
For nought beheld he in that desert weird
Save Dian's eyes, more sweet than moon or star.