You Loved me not at All

You loved me not at all, but let it go; I loved you more than life, but let it be. As the more injured party, this being so, / The hour's amenities are all to me- The choice of weapons; and I gravely choose

To let the weapons tarnish where they lie; And spend the night in eloquent abuse

Of senators and popes and such small fry

And meet the morning standing, and at odds

With heaven and earth and hell and any fool

Who calls his soul his own, and all the gods, / And all the children getting dressed for school . . .

And you will leave me, and I shall entomb

What's cold by then in an adjoining room.