| Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922. | | | | Chorus from ‘Medea’ | | By Lord de Tabley (John Byrne Leicester Warren) (1835–1895) |
| | | SWEET are the ways of death to weary feet, | |
| Calm are the shades of men. | |
| The phantom fears no tyrant in his seat, | |
| The slave is master then. | |
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| Love is abolish’d; well, that this is so; | 5 |
| We knew him best as Pain. | |
| The gods are all cast out, and let them go! | |
| Who ever found them gain? | |
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| Ready to hurt and slow to succour these; | |
| So, while thou breathest, pray. | 10 |
| But in the sepulchre all flesh has peace; | |
| Their hand is put away. | | | | |
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