Song | Christina Rossetti

By: Christina Rossetti

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 dewdrop 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 or set,

Haply I may remember,

And haply may forget.