Lyric Poem · Death & Loss
When I Am Dead, My Dearest (Song)
by Christina Rossetti · 1862
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.
This poem is in the public domain.
“When I Am Dead, My Dearest (Song)” by Christina Rossetti — quilloak.com/poems/when-i-am-dead-my-dearest
Keep reading
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe · 1849
It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know
41 lines · ballad
Remember
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,
14 lines · sonnet
Music, When Soft Voices Die
Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1821
Music, when soft voices die,Vibrates in the memory—Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
8 lines · lyric