Endymion

Endymion, a youth in Greek Mythology, celebrated for his beauty and his perpetual sleep. As he slept on Mount Latmos, in Caria, his beauty warmed the cold heart of Selene (the moon), who came down to kiss him and lie by his side. Different reasons were given for his sleep, the most general as well as the most poetic being that Selene had sent him to sleep that she might kiss him without his knowing. The story inspired the fresh fancy of the young Keats, who shaped it into an imperishable poem.