When I Am Dead (Kenneth Langer)

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• (Posted 2025-05-28)  CPDL #85132:         

Editor: Kenneth Langer (submitted 2025-05-28).   Score information: Letter, 5 pages, 125 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Rossetti Songs 3
Composer: Kenneth Langer
Lyricist: Christina Rossetti
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Soprano solo
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: English
Instruments: Keyboard

First published: 2025
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English text

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 or set,
haply I may remember, and haply may forget.