Editing Christina Rossetti (section)

==Later life==
{{Quote box |width=350px |align=right|quoted=true |bgcolor=#FFFFF0 |salign=right
 |quote =<poem>
'''Song'''
When I am dead, my dearest,
 Sing no sad songs for me;
Plant thou no roses at my head,
 Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
 With showers and dewdrops wet:
And if thou wilt, remember,
 And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,
 I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
 Sing on as if in pain:
And dreaming through the twilight
 That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
 And haply may forget.
</poem>|source=1862<ref>The Norton Anthology of Poetry (revised shorter edition), {{ISBN|0-393-09251-8}}.</ref>}}

In her later decades, Rossetti suffered from a type of [[hyperthyroidism]] – [[Graves' disease]] – diagnosed in 1872, suffering a near-fatal attack in the early 1870s.<ref name="Poets.org"/><ref name="ODNB"/> In 1893, she developed [[breast cancer]]. The tumour was removed, but there was a recurrence in September 1893.

Christina Rossetti died of cancer on 29 December 1894 and was buried on 2 January 1895 in the family grave on the west side of [[Highgate Cemetery]], which, notoriously had been opened in October 1869 so that Gabriel could retrieve a volume of poems he had buried with his wife.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="Harrison"/><ref>Scott Wilson, ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3rd ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 40725-40726). McFarland & Company, Inc., publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> There she joined her father, mother and [[Elizabeth Siddal]], wife of her brother Dante Gabriel. Her brother William was also buried there in 1919, as were the ashes of four subsequent family members.

There is a stone tablet on the façade of 30 Torrington Square, [[Bloomsbury]], marking her final home, where she died.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/christina-rossetti |title=Christina Rossetti: London Remembers |publisher=londonremembers.com |access-date=22 November 2013 |archive-date=21 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221200552/http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/christina-rossetti |url-status=live }}</ref>