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Title: Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems

Author: Christina Rossetti

Release Date: October 26, 2005 [EBook #16950]

Language: English

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The World's Classics

CLXXXIV

Goblin Market
The Prince's Progress
And other poems

By

Christina Rossetti

Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
London, Edinburgh, Glasgow
New York, Toronto, Melbourne & Bombay

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Born, 38 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, London, December 5, 1830
Died, 30 Torrington Square, London, December 29, 1894

'Goblin Market and other Poems' was first published in 1862,
'The Prince's Progress and other Poems' was first published in 1866.
In 'The World's Classics' the contents of these two books, together
with other poems, were first published in one volume in 1913.

  To
  MY MOTHER
  In all reverence and love
  I inscribe this book

CONTENTS

GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS, 1862

  Goblin Market
  In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857
  Dream Land
  At Home
  A Triad
  Love from the North
  Winter Rain
  Cousin Kate
  Noble Sisters
  Spring
  The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
  A Birthday
  Remember
  After Death
  An End
  My Dream
  Song ('Oh roses for the flush of youth')
  The Hour and the Ghost
  A Summer Wish
  An Apple Gathering
  Song ('Two doves upon the selfsame branch')
  Maude Clare
  Echo
  My Secret
  Another Spring
  A Peal of Bells
  Fata Morgana
  'No, Thank you, John'
  May
  A Pause of Thought
  Twilight Calm
  Wife to Husband
  Three Seasons
  Mirage
  Shut out
  Sound Sleep
  Song ('She sat and sang alway')
  Song ('When I am dead, my dearest')
  Dead before Death
  Bitter for Sweet
  Sister Maude
  Rest
  The First Spring Day
  The Convent Threshold
  Up-hill

      DEVOTIONAL PIECES
  'The Love of Christ which passeth Knowledge'
  'A Bruised Reed shall He not Break'
  A Better Resurrection
  Advent
  The Three Enemies
  The One Certainty
  Christian and Jew
  Sweet Death
  Symbols
  'Consider the Lilies of the Field'
  The World
  A Testimony
  Sleep at Sea
  From House to Home
  Old and New Year Ditties: No. I
    No. II
    No. III
  Amen

THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS, 1866

  The Prince's Progress
  Maiden-Song
  Jessie Cameron
  Spring Quiet
  The Poor Ghost
  A Portrait
  Dream-Love
  Twice
  Songs in a Cornfield
  A Year's Windfalls
  The Queen of Hearts
  One Day
  A Bird's-Eye View
  Light Love
  A Dream
  A Ring Posy
  Beauty is Vain
  Lady Maggie
  What would I give?
  The Bourne
  Summer
  Autumn
  The Ghost's Petition
  Memory
  A Royal Princess
  Shall I Forget?
  Vanity of Vanities
  L. E. L.
  Life and Death
  Bird or Beast?
  Eve
  Grown and Flown
  A Farm Walk
  Somewhere or Other
  A Chill
  Child's Talk in April
  Gone for Ever
  Under the Rose

    DEVOTIONAL PIECES
  Despised and Rejected
  Long Barren
  If only
  Dost thou not Care?
  Weary in Well-doing
  Martyrs' Song
  After this the Judgement
  Good Friday
  The Lowest Place

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, 1848-69

  Death's Chill Between
  Heart's Chill Between
  Repining
  Sit Down in the Lowest Room
  My Friend
  Last Night
  Consider
  Helen Grey
  'By the Waters of Babylon'
  Seasons
  Mother Country
  A Smile and a Sigh
  Dead Hope
  Autumn Violets
  'They Desire a Better Country'
  The Offering of the New Law
  Conference between Christ, the Saints, and the Soul
  'Come unto Me'
  'Jesus, do I Love Thee?'
  'I know you not'
  'Before the Paling of the Stars'
  Easter Even
  Paradise: in a Dream
  Within the Veil
  Paradise: in a Symbol
  Amor Mundi
  Who shall deliver Me?
  If
  Twilight Night

GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS, 1862

GOBLIN MARKET

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
'Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheeked peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries, 10
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;—
All ripe together
In summer weather,—
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine, 20
Pomegranates full and fine,
Dates and sharp bullaces,
Rare pears and greengages,
Damsons and bilberries,
Taste them and try:
Currants and gooseberries,
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; 30
Come buy, come buy.'

  Evening by evening
Among the brookside rushes,
Laura bowed her head to hear,
Lizzie veiled her blushes:
Crouching close together
In the cooling weather,
With clasping arms and cautioning lips,
With tingling cheeks and finger tips.
'Lie close,' Laura said, 40
Pricking up her golden head:
'We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?'
'Come buy,' call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
'Oh,' cried Lizzie, 'Laura, Laura,
You should not peep at goblin men.'
Lizzie covered up her eyes, 50
Covered close lest they should look;
Laura reared her glossy head,
And whispered like the