At the beginning of VN’s novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert calls Lolita “light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soul:”
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. (1.1)
In his poem Une Charogne (“A Carcass”) Baudelaire calls his mistress “star of my eyes, sun of my nature, my angel and my passion:”