Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Christina Georgina Rossetti. 18301894787. Remember
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 | 5 |
You tell me of our future that you plann’d: | |
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: | 10 |
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. |