Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894). Goblin Market and Other Poems. I. Song: "When I Am Dead". Alfred H. Miles, ed. 1907. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

Goblin Market and Other Poems.
I. Song: “When I Am Dead”

By Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)


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	5
With showers and dew-drops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not feel the rain;	10
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,	15
And haply may forget.