When I Am Dead, My Dearest, Cristina Georgiana Rossetti

When I Am Dead, My Dearest

Cristina Georgiana Rossetti(1830～94) :

 

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 hear the nightingale

Sing on, as if in pain;

And dreaming through the twilight

That doth not rise nor set,

Haply I may remember,

And haply may forget.

 

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