"To --" by Edgar Allan Poe

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The 1850 revision. The picture used is "Mud flats off Burnham-on-Sea" by Rabbi WP Thinrod, licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)

I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath little of Earth in it,
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute:
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.