Poems / poetry / verse

Song

  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.

      Christina Rossetti