Christina Rossetti

Song

by Christina Rossetti

When I am dead, my dearest
Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise or set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

Links

Biography of Christina Rossetti

For the Visual Arts of Christina Rossetti