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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN I AM DEAD, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poet's Biography
First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead
Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead
Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me.
Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones
I WOULD not have you mourn when I am dead,
And find but thorns where roses used to grow;
Nor would I have you thrall to useless woe,
Recalling memories of days long fled;
I would not have you find the rose less red,
Or miss the magic of the afterglow,
Or, as you mark the world's vast ebb and flow,
Be blind to beacons o'er dark waters shed.
Yet haply as you read some verse of love
When dappled flame makes lovely all the west,
Or wander pensive by a twilit sea
While stars grow golden in the sky above,
Murmur my name and sigh, "These he loved best,"
Murmur my name and smile, remembering me.
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