The most common disease to genius is nympholepsy-the saddening for a spirit that the world knows not.
"Godolphin, Volume 2."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
But if there is enough of the human or personal note to bring into touch the various poems which deal with these various impressions, there may perhaps be no less of it discernible in such as try to render the effect of inland or woodland solitude-the splendid oppression of nature at noon which found utterance of old in words of such singular and everlasting significance as panic and nympholepsy.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
It is no new form of the nympholepsy of poetry, that my ideal should fly before me:-and if I cry out too hopefully at sight of the white vesture receding between the cypresses, let me be blamed gently if justly.
"The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning