[HPFGU-OTChatter] Desperately seeking poetic quote

[Shaun Hately]

On 25 Oct 2003 at 12:15, junediamanti wrote:

> Hi very well read clever people
> 
> I am looking for a suitable poem to quote in a fiction I am working 
> on.  
> 
> What I want is a consoling poem to a bereaved person. 
> 
> Unfortunately, all I can think of at the moment is Ash Wednesday or 
> Burnt Norton - both too long and therefore not lending themselves to 
> providing a good fragment for quoting purposes.  They seem possibly 
> overtly Christian as well - and that's not really what is wanted.
> 
> I do not want "Stop All the Clocks" by Auden - done to death -  
> though I like it.  Or anything too mawkish either. 
> 
> So, anybody got a best consolatory poem? 

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 out 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 that you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.

- Remember, Christina Georgina Rossetti


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