when i am dead dearest

• 1830- 1894 yılları arasında yaşamış, ingiliz şair christina rossetti'nin ölüm hakkında yazdığı pekçok melanolik şiirden biri.
  
  "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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