Meditation 17, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624)

Nuc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee…

— John Donne (1573-1631)

(Not srictly poetry, but who cares?)