Christina Rossetti (born 5 December, 1830; died 29 December, 1894), pictured above with her family in a photograph made in October, 1863 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832-1898); in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery
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
