Quote#Remembrance
No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone
Quote byWilliam Allingham · 1824–1889
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poem: No funeral gloom - part of funeral of actress Ellen Terry 1928..
English (original)
No funeral gloom, my dears, when I am gone, corpse-gazing, tears, black raiment, graveyard grimness. Think of me as withdrawn into the dimness, yours still, you mine. Remember all the best of our past moments, and forget the rest; and so to where I wait, come gently on.
— William Allingham
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Autumn's the mellow time.
Out of the city, far away With spring to-day! Where copses tufted with primrose Give me repose, Wood-sorrel and wild violet Soothe my soul's fret.
Winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep.
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men.
Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!