Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.
By Goblin Market and Other Poems. I. Song: “When I Am Dead”Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
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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 dew-drops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.
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.