610. Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Published: Dec. 5, 2013, 9:37 a.m.

b"Christina Georgina Rossetti read by Classic Poetry Aloud\\n\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\nTwitter: @classicpoetry\\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/poetryaloud\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\n Remember\\n\\nby Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 \\u2013 1894)\\n \\nRemember me when I am gone away, \\n Gone far away into the silent land; \\n When you can no more hold me by the hand, \\nNor I half turn to go, yet turning stay. \\nRemember me when no more day by day \\n You tell me of our future that you plann'd: \\n Only remember me; you understand \\nIt will be late to counsel then or pray. \\nYet if you should forget me for a while \\n And afterwards remember, do not grieve: \\n For if the darkness and corruption leave \\n A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, \\nBetter by far you should forget and smile \\n Than that you should remember and be sad. \\n\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud, 2007."