| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Lachrymatory |
| | | Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–79) |
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| FROM out the grave of one whose budding years | |
| Were cropp’d by death, when Rome was in her prime, | |
| I brought the phial of his kinsman’s tears, | |
| There placed, as was the wont of ancient time; | |
| Round me, that night, in meads of asphodel, | 5 |
| The souls of the early dead did come and go, | |
| Drawn by that flask of grief, as by a spell, | |
| That long-imprison’d shower of human woe. | |
| As round Ulysses, for the draught of blood, | |
| The heroes throng’d, those spirits flock’d to me, | 10 |
| Where, lonely, with that charm of tears, I stood; | |
| Two, most of all, my dreaming eyes did see; | |
| The young Marcellus, young, but great and good, | |
| And Tully’s daughter, mourn’d so tenderly. | |
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