This Bleak December Day a Poet Remembered

re-post vignette-ON THIS BLEAK MID-WINTERS DAY Dear Christina we remember thee Your verse,your hymns,true celebrity In prolific,perfect poetry- We remember,yet are not sad Such genius, can only make us glad. Christina Rossetti died (29th) Dec in 1894.Best known for her carol 'In the Bleak Mid -Winter and her poem 'Remember' which starts 'Remember me when I am gone away/gone far away into the silent land/When you can no more hold me, by the hand..and concludes ...Better by far you should forget & smile/Then that you should remember & be sad. End of year... a day to remember a favourie poet