What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; The critic spits on what is done, Gives it a wipeöand all isgone.

-Honorius of Autun
'A  Joke'. Collected in Hallam Tennyson  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1897), vol.2, ch.3.

And they are gone: aye, ages long ago These lovers fled away into the storm.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 42.

  If to be absent were to be Away from thee; Or that when I am gone, You or I were alone; Then my Lucasta might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave.

-Lovelace, Richard
  Lucasta,'To Lucasta, Going beyond the Seas'.

But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return! Thee shepherd, thee the woods, and desert caves, With wild thyme and the gadding vine o'ergrown, And all their echoes mourn.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.37^41.

   Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, Thou art gone, and for ever!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lady of the Lake, canto 3, stanza16,'Coronach'.

They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me.

-Synge,John Millington
  Maurya speaking. Riders to the Sea.

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

-Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)
  'September1913', refrain. Collected in Responsibilities (1914).