Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/Song (When I am dead, my dearest)

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

SONG.

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 nor set, Haply I may remember,  And haply may forget.