Song
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
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.
DayPoems Poem No. 729
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/729.html">Song by Christina Georgina Rossetti</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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