Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Remember me when I am gone away
Last Line: Than that you should remember and be sad.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement


Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more day by day
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.




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