He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and gaze.
I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,
And went with half my life about my ways.
From: https://poets.org/poem/he-would-not-stay-me-and-who-can-wonder
Date: 1939 (published)
By: Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936)
From Troubles of The World 