It was a beautiful embodied thought,
A dream of the fine painter, one of those
That pass by moonlight o'er the soul, and flit
'Mid the dim shades of twilight, when the eye
Grows tearful with its ecstasy.
(1st June 1822) Poetic Sketches. Second Series - Sketch the Fifth. Mr. Martin's Picture of Clytie - The London Literary Gazette - 1821-1822