When I Am Dead , My Dearest…..by Christina Rossetti

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.

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9 Responses to When I Am Dead , My Dearest…..by Christina Rossetti

  1. Ruth Bernstein says:

    Beautiful… this wipes me out. Full of platitudes, I guess. But love and death are platitudes, ain’t they?

    Well done, Christina. Give my love to Dante.

  2. the avatar says:

    is the correct way haply or happily?
    mmm
    and love and death are not platitudes ruth, they are altitudes

    • Berenice says:

      Happily = in a happy way. // “He was singing happily.”
      Haply = maybe. // “Haply I will see you there” = “Maybe I will see you there.”

      But “haply” is an archaic, poetic word. No one uses it nowadays. It is out of date.

      Christina Rossetti is not a modern poet. She lived over 100 years ago.

      • Gilbert Huntly says:

        I like “haply”. I like the poem – especially the last two lines of each verse, implying no weight of decision in the Hereafter.

  3. deborah mattingly conner says:

    Happily and haply mean different things and change the poem entirely. Which do you like better, avatar? And I love the idea of love and death as altitudes. Stuff of thin air, for certain.:)

  4. deborah mattingly conner says:

    Ares: I know. How about you enlighten yourself:

    http://themoonsfavors.blogspot.com/2012/11/thou-shalt-love-stranger.html

    • lobro says:

      sure, according to your link, namely jesus the jew or talmud for goy retards.

      the same jesus the jew who according to your revered talmud is boiled in shit for eternity? they sure showed the quality of their love for the stranger there, didn’t they?
      or shall we ask the bolsheviks, ilya ehrenburg, the architects and executors of holodomor to name just a few from the long and honorable list.

      go ahead, love them and prove your love with prepaid delivery of couple of kidneys and other sweetmeats.

      jesus-the-jew … yeah, i recall such deep thinkers as bob zimmerman (dylan-the-goy) and leonard cohen (budda-the-jew) making a big deal about jesus-the-jew at one time before returning to whack their caloused foreheads against whining wall.

  5. lobro says:

    contrary to deborah, i do like the poem very much … fine cadence, meter and other poetic whatnot.
    and the content is worth thinking about … whass luv gotta do with it.
    or maybe it does according to deborah:
    oh, how i love thee, the jew
    you have ruined our sweet nation
    corrupted her from within
    bribed her with your fiat
    infiltrated our legislators
    turned our righteous defense into talmudic offense
    corrupted our values, polluted our minds, turned our women into whores
    pesticided our foods, polluted our soil, pissed into our waters and soul

    bless you, bless you to Gehenna, bless you to Gehenna Jew!
    how i wish thee to live to see the promise of talmud

    for the uninitiated: Jew gold
    a term for the small bag of gold that Jews wear around their neck. The purpose of jew gold is to buy heaven from God on Judgement Day.
    Jews carry two bags around their necks, one for the jew gold, and a decoy bag filled with rocks.
    It has been scientifically proven that it is impossible to get a Jew to part with their jew gold.

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