Edna St. Vincent Millay
Passer Mortuus Est
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness,—presently
Every bed is narrow
Unremembered as old rain
Dries the sheer libation
And the little petulant hand
Is an annotation
After all, my erstwhile dear
My no longer cherished
Need we say it was not love
Now that love is perished?