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 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.

by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) , "Remember", from Goblin Market and other Poems, published 1862

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, no. ?
by Bainbridge Crist (1883-1969) , "Remember", published 1930. [high voice, violin obbligato, orchestra]
by Richard Hageman (1882-1966) , "Into the silent land", published 1944. [high voice, piano]
by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874-1949) , "Remember", op. 114 (Three Sonnets for Voice and Pianoforte) no. 2 (1935). [voice and piano]
by Kurt List (1913-) , "Remember", <<1956, first performed 1955. [madrigal]
by Landon Ronald (1873-1938) , "Remember", published 1915. [voice, piano]
by Daniel Ruyneman (1886-1963) , "Remember", published 1949 [voice, piano], from Seven Melodies
by Halsey Stevens (1908-1989) , "Sonnet", 1947. [low voice, piano]
by Halsey Stevens (1908-1989) , "Remember me", published 1973. [TTB a cappella]
by Bryceson Treharne (1879-1948) , "Remember me when I am gone away", published <<1940. [medium voice, piano]
by Rudolph Werther (1896-?) , "Remember me", 1945-70. [voice, piano]
by Richard Willis (1929-) , "Remember", published 1954. [SSA a cappella]

ITA Italian (Ferdinando Albeggiani)
GER German (Bertram Kottmann)

Date added to the website: 2006-02-02.

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