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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.
Christina Georgina Rossetti [1830-1894]
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
