Helena Bonham Carter reads 'Song' or ‘When i am dead, my dearest’ a poem by the acclaimed Victorian poet, Christina Rossetti, for The Love Book poetry app (£1.99).

You can find 200 more poems, love letters and quotes on the app - available worldwide for Apple and Android. Other readers include Gina Bellman, Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis, Helen McCrory and Emma Watson.

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Song 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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