Sonnet 16

Long have I long’d to see my love againe,
  Still have I wisht, but never could obtaine it;
  Rather than all the world (if I might gaine it)
Would I desire my love’s sweet precious gaine.
Yet in my soule I see him everie day,
  See him, and see his still sterne countenaunce,
  But (ah) what is of long continuance,
Where majestie and beautie beares the sway?
Sometimes, when I imagine that I see him,
  (As love is full of foolish fantasies)
  Weening to kisse his lips, as my love’s fees,
I feele but aire: nothing but aire to bee him.
  Thus with Ixion, kisse I clouds in vaine:
  Thus with Ixion, feele I endles paine.