English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 723. Song |
| | | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
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| 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 dewdrops wet; | |
| And if thou wilt, remember, | |
| And if thou wilt, forget. | |
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| 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. | |
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