The following beautiful lines, which occur in The Princess, have been the subject of many parodies:—
Home they brought her warrior dead;
She nor swoon'd nor utter'd cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
"She must weep or she will die."
Then they praised him soft and low,
Call'd him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.