Sonnet · Death & Loss
Remember
by Christina Rossetti · 1862
Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you plann'd:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Remember
- Poet
- Christina Rossetti
- Published
- 1862
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Sonnet
- Themes
- Death & Loss, Love, Sad
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 14 lines · one 14-line stanza
- End rhyme
- ABBAACBADEFGDG.
- Line length
- Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).
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Text, source & rights
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- Author record
- Christina Rossetti1830–1894
- Source record
- QuillOak curated editionRemember (1862) by christina-rossetti
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1862
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 f40b5e2900de0315…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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