English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 724. Remember |
| | | Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894) |
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| REMEMBER me when I am gone away, | |
| Gone far away into the silent land; | |
| When you can no more hold me by the hand, | |
| Nor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. | |
| Remember me when no more day by day | 5 |
| You tell me of our future that you plann’d: | |
| Only remember me; you understand | |
| It will be late to counsel then or pray. | |
| Yet if you should forget me for a while | |
| And afterwards remember, do not grieve: | 10 |
| For if the darkness and corruption leave | |
| A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, | |
| Better by far you should forget and smile | |
| Than that you should remember and be sad. | |
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