Perishability bars certain other sorts.
"Camp and Trail"
Stewart Edward White
His poems are pervaded by vain longing for the ideal, by lamentations over deceived hopes and unfulfilled aspirations, by painful realization of the imperfection and Perishability of all earthly things, and the insignificance and transitoriness of life, in a word, by Weltschmerz, in its purest, ideal form, not merely self-deception and irony turned against one's own soul life, but a profoundly solemn emotion, springing from sublime pity for the misery of the world read by the light of personal trials and sorrows.
"Jewish Literature and Other Essays"
Gustav Karpeles
Novels of indignation or of melancholy, of a longing for the continuity of individual passion confronted with the inevitable-it was that, the Perishability of all that was desirable, which gave to small things, a flower in the hair, their importance as symbols.
"San Cristóbal de la Habana"
Joseph Hergesheimer