Text of the Poem | When I am Dead, My Dearest By Christina Rossetti | Eureka Study Aids

1. When I am dead, my dearest,
2. Sing no sad songs for me;
3. Plant thou no roses at my head,
4. Nor shady cypress tree:
5. Be the green grass above me
6. With showers and dewdrops wet;
7. And if thou wilt, remember,
8. And if thou wilt, forget.

9. I shall not see the shadows,
10. I shall not feel the rain;
11. I shall not hear the nightingale
12. Sing on, as if in pain:
13. And dreaming through the twilight
14. That doth not rise nor set,
15. Haply I may remember,
16. And haply my forget.