Careful Words

siren (n.)

  I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

George Chapman (1557-1634): Eastward Ho. Act v. Sc. 1.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864): To Robert Browning.