Remember Ugolino condescends
To eat the head of his arch-enemy
The moment after he politely ends
His tale.
Byron, Don Juan, ii. 83 (1819).
Ulalume, the lost love, to the door of whose tomb the poet strays with “Psyche, his soul.”
And we pass to the end of the vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb,--
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said, “What is written, sweet sister