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.
Christina Rossetti
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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.
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.
