| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Two Sonnet-Songs. I. The Sirens Sing |
| | | Frank T. Marzials (b. 1840) |
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| HIST, hist, ye winds, ye whispering wavelets hist, | |
| Their toil is done, their teen and trouble are o’er, | |
| Wash them, ye waves, in silence to the shore, | |
| Waft them, ye winds, with voices hushed and whist. | |
| Hist, waves and winds, here shall their eyes be kist | 5 |
| By love, and sweet love-slumber, till the roar | |
| Of forepast storms, now stilled, for evermore, | |
| Die on their dream-horizons like dim mist. | |
| What of renown, ye winds, when storms are done? | |
| A faded foam-flower on a wearying wave. | 10 |
| All toil is but the digging of a grave. | |
| Here let them rest awhile ere set the sun, | |
| And sip the honey’d moments one by one— | |
| So fleet, so sweet, so few to squander or save. | |
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