The Hundred Best Poems (lyrical) in the English language - second series/Come not, when I am dead

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

LORD TENNYSON.

COME not, when I am dead,
⁠To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave,
To trample round my fallen head,
⁠And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save.
There let the wind sweep and the plover cry;
⁠But thou, go by.

Child, if it were thine error or thy crime
⁠I care no longer, being all unblest:
Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time,
⁠And I desire to rest.
Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie:
⁠Go by, go by.