This blue half-tone image in portrait orientation reproduces a watercolour that Millais prepared to illustrate a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge for an illustrated edition called Poets of the Nineteenth Century (Dalziel, 1857). The image shows two lovers embracing on a moonlit terrace in front of a grove of fir trees. At left, a man sits on a stone bench with his face turned away from the viewer. He is in profile facing left. He wears a long robe. His left arm hangs at his side, holding a lyre or harp; his right hand holds his lover at the back of her head.
