Remember Thee! Remember Thee! by Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824)Remember thee! remember thee!Till Lethe quench life's burning streamRemorse and shame shall cling to thee,And haunt thee like a feverish dream!Remember thee! Aye, doubt it not.Thy husband too shall think of thee:By neither shalt thou be forgot,Thou false to him, thou fiend to me!About this poem :At one stage in the poets life, an emotional and eccentric older married woman, Lady Caroline Lamb, became infatuated with him. At first he was flattered and responded to her and confided in her. She came to his rooms, and had a portrait painted, dressed as a boy in a page's uniform.Her family became increasingly embarrassed by Caroline's behaviour. Her husband, William Lamb, was a politician. Her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, befriended Byron and convinced him to break off the relationship. Her family whisked Caroline off to their estate in Ireland.Lady Caroline Lamb later returned from Ireland and continued to write to him, go to his home and threaten him. At an evening party, after becoming angry with Byron, she cut her hand. This was reported in the papers as an attempted suicide. Today, her behaviour would be considered as stalking — a crime. Once, in his rooms when he was absent, she wrote "Remember me" on the fly leaf of a book. Byron's response was the above poem.

by Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824)

Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and shame shall cling to thee,
And haunt thee like a feverish dream!

Remember thee! Aye, doubt it not.
Thy husband too shall think of thee:
By neither shalt thou be forgot,
Thou false to him, thou fiend to me!

About this poem :
At one stage in the poets life, an emotional and eccentric older married woman, Lady Caroline Lamb, became infatuated with him. At first he was flattered and responded to her and confided in her. She came to his rooms, and had a portrait painted, dressed as a boy in a page's uniform.
Her family became increasingly embarrassed by Caroline's behaviour. Her husband, William Lamb, was a politician. Her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne, befriended Byron and convinced him to break off the relationship. Her family whisked Caroline off to their estate in Ireland.
Lady Caroline Lamb later returned from Ireland and continued to write to him, go to his home and threaten him. At an evening party, after becoming angry with Byron, she cut her hand. This was reported in the papers as an attempted suicide. Today, her behaviour would be considered as stalking — a crime. Once, in his rooms when he was absent, she wrote "Remember me" on the fly leaf of a book. Byron's response was the above poem.