| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Overture |
| | | Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | | | From “Thrasymedes and Eunoë” |
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| WHO will away to Athens with me? who | |
| Loves choral songs and maidens crown’d with flowers, | |
| Unenvious? mount the pinnace; hoist the sail. | |
| I promise ye, as many as are here, | |
| Ye shall not, while ye tarry with me, taste | 5 |
| From unrins’d barrel the diluted wine | |
| Of a low vineyard or a plant ill prun’d, | |
| But such as anciently the Ægean isles | |
| Pour’d in libation at their solemn feasts: | |
| And the same goblets shall ye grasp, emboss’d | 10 |
| With no vile figures of loose languid boors, | |
| But such as gods have liv’d with and have led. | |
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