SONG by Christina Rossetti

SONG
by Christina Rossetti

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.