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Christina Rossetti

Updated: Jan 11, 2023

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

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:

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


Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 – 1894) Born in London, Victorian poet Rossetti was the youngest of four artistic and literary siblings; best known is Dante Gabriel Rossetti, pre-Raphaelite poet and painter. Christina Rossetti served as model for her brother's early paintings, for example, "The Annunciation" (pictured). "Goblin Market" is perhaps her most famous work.


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