Remember | Remember me when I am gone away

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

Remember me when I am gone away

Language: English

Our translations: GER ITA

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 planned:
  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.

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Text Authorship:

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Remember", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "Remember me", published 1952 [ SSA chorus and piano ], from Four Christina Rossetti Settings [sung text not yet checked]
by Bainbridge Crist (1883 - 1969), "Remember", published 1930 [ high voice, violin obbligato, orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Hageman (1881 - 1966), "Into the silent land", published 1944 [ high voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "Remember", op. 114 (Three Sonnets for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 2 (1935) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Elaine Hugh-Jones (b. 1927), "Remember" [ voice and piano ], from The Silent Land: Two Poems by Christina Rossetti, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Hugill , "Remember" [ mezzo-soprano, viola, piano ], from Quickening, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leonard J[ordan] Lehrman (b. 1949), "Remember me when I am gone away", alternate title: "Sonnetina #7", op. 66 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Kurt List (b. 1913), "Remember", <<1956, first performed 1955 [ chorus ], madrigal [sung text not yet checked]
by Landon Ronald, Sir (1873 - 1938), "Remember", published 1915 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Daniel Ruyneman (1886 - 1963), "Remember", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], from Seven melodies, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Myron Silberstein (b. 1975), "Remember", 2016 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Halsey Stevens (1908 - 1989), "Sonnet", 1947 [ low voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Halsey Stevens (1908 - 1989), "Remember me", published 1973 [ TTB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Bryceson Treharne (1879 - 1948), "Remember me when I am gone away", published <<1940 [ medium voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Owen Underhill (b. 1954), "Remember", 2007 [ mezzo-soprano and flute ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Rudolph T. Werther (1896 - 1986), "Remember me", 1945-70 [ voice, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Willis, Dr. (b. 1929), "Remember", published 1954 [ SSA chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Denk manchmal mein –", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2006-02-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 111