About the Poet Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) was a gentle yet powerful voice of the Victorian era. Her poetry often explored faith, devotion, and the emotional beauty of love and loss. Though her tone was quiet, her words carried deep strength the kind that heals rather than wounds. She wrote with compassion, humility, and a spiritual calm that still touches readers today. The 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 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 Than that you should remember and be sad. Paraphrase In this ge...