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Alfred Lord Tennyson http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-12666869
He wrote it as part of a poem In Memoriam A.H.H. about his friend who died suddenly. It took him 17 years to write it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memoriam_A.H.H.
I wonder if they were just friends.

No, no no.
I want happy endings not these bittersweet endings. I know it's better to love and lost than to have never loved at all. But this HURTS!