"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her–that she died!How shall the ritual, then, be read?–the requiem how be sungBy you–by yours, the evil eye,–by yours, the slanderous tongueThat did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?" from Sweet Lenore 1831
"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her–that she died!How shall the ritual, then, be read?–the requiem how be sungBy you–by yours, the evil eye,–by yours, the slanderous tongueThat did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?" from Sweet Lenore 1831
I've always enjoyed Poe's works