Goblin Market and Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti

63 chapters2h 32mEnglish1862

About this book

Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a creepy and sensual tale of two sisters' temptation to eat forbidden fruits. The poems explore themes of death, faith, isolation, and love, with a section of devotional pieces at the end. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Chapters (63)

1Goblin Market

1383

2In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857

3Dream-Land

103

4At Home

122

5From Sunet to Star Rise

6Love From the North

126

7Winter Rain

8A Dirge

9Confluents

10Noble Sisters

163

11Spring

128

12The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860

110

13A Birthday

14Remember

15After Death

16An End

17My Dream

221

18Song

19The Hour and the Ghost

223

20A Summer Wish

21An Apple Gathering

115

22Song

23Maude Clare

164

24Echo

25Winter: My Secret

153

26Another Spring

27A Peal of Bells

106

28Fata Morgana

29No, Thank You, John

117

30May

31A Pause of Thought

32Twilight Calm

191

33Wife to Husband

34Three Seasons

35Mirage

36Shut Out

114

37Sound Sleep

38Song

39Song

40Dead Before Death

41Bitter For Sweet

42The Master is Come, and Calleth For Thee

43Rest

44The First Spring Day

45The Convent Threshold

483

46Uphill

47The Love of Christ Which Passeth Knowledge

131

48A Bruised Reed Shall He Not Break

108

49A Better Resurrection

50Advent

179

51The Three Enemies

153

52One Certainty

53Christian and Jew

187

54Sweet Death

55Symbols

56Consider the Lilies of the Field

57The World

58A Testimony

245

59Sleep At Sea

202

60From House to Home

748

61Old and New Year Ditties

240

62Amen

63Mother Country

184

Goblin Market and Other Poems

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Chapters (63)

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