greykit.poetry — Christina Rossetti/goblin-market-and-other-poems

• 1862 [christina-rossetti] Goblin Market
  Goblin Market and Other Poems

  Laura succumbs to the goblin merchants' enchanted fruit and wastes away; her sister Lizzie braves the goblins to win the antidote and save her — a narrative poem of temptation, sacrifice, and the redemptive bond between sisters.

  #narrative#desire#temptation#sisterhood#1860s
• 1862 [christina-rossetti] Remember
  Goblin Market and Other Poems

  Rossetti urges her beloved to remember her after death, then revises the plea — better he should forget and smile than remember and be sad.

  #sonnet#memory#death#grief#1860s
• 1861 [christina-rossetti] A Birthday
  Goblin Market and Other Poems

  Rossetti's jubilant lyric — the heart like a singing bird, an apple tree, a rainbow shell — all gladder than all these, because the birthday of my life is come, my love is come to me.

  #lyric#love#joy#1860s