POEM
When I Am Dead, My Dearest
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
Penny
20th January 2021