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On Receiving a Letter

So you, too, thought that I was dead,
 And wished you'd died with me!
I died, my dear, when you were wed,
 In greater agony
Than this poor fever ever bore
 That sapped at me afresh.
So many deaths I've died before,
 What matters one of flesh?

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