On a Picture of Leander + 

Come hither, all sweet maidens soberly, + 

Down-looking aye, and with a chasten’d light + 

Hid in the fringes of your eyelids white, + 

And meekly let your fair hands joined be, + 

As if so gentle that ye could not see, + 

Untouch’d, a victim of your beauty bright, + 

Sinking away to his young spirit’s night, + 

Sinking bewilder’d ’mid the dreary sea: + 

’Tis young Leander toiling to his death; + 

Nigh swooning, he doth purse his weary lips + 

For Hero’s cheek, and smiles against her smile. + 

O horrid dream! see how his body dips + 

Dead-heavy; arms and shoulders gleam awhile: + 

He’s gone; up bubbles all his amorous breath! + 