Song [When I am dead, my dearest]

Christina Rossetti * Track #215 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

Song [When I am dead, my dearest] by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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In this poem the speaker tries to comfort and reassure their lover after the s/he has died. It mirrors Rossetti’s Remember, which also deals with comforting a bereaved lover.

Rossetti weaves in a range of ideas; memory, after-life, the human spirit, hope, patience and reassurance. The detailed anno...

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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.

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Song [When I am dead, my dearest] was written by Christina Rossetti.

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