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?