| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Thaisa’s Dirge |
| | | Herman Charles Merivale (b. 1839) |
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| THAISA fair, under the cold sea lying, | |
| Sleeps the long sleep denied to her by Earth; | |
| We, adding sighs unto the wild winds’ sighing, | |
| With all our mourning under-mourn her worth: | |
| The white waves toss their crested plumes above her, | 5 |
| Round sorrowing faces with the salt spray wet; | |
| All are her lovers that once learn’d to love her, | |
| And never may remember to forget; | |
| Shells for her pillow Amphitrite bringeth, | |
| And sad nymphs of the dank weed weave her shroud; | 10 |
| Old Triton’s horn her dirge to Ocean singeth, | |
| Whose misty caverns swell the echo loud; | |
| And, while the tides rock to and fro her bier, | |
| What was Thaisa lies entombed here. | |
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