Goblin Market, The Prince’s Progress, and Other Poems
By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Cover: Buy from Us with a Golden Curl, frontispiece to Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), wood engraving by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1882)
Christina Rossetti's two volumes of 1862 and 1866 give the title poem, in which the sisters Laura and Lizzie meet the goblin merchants whose fruit is a poison, and The Prince's Progress. A long shelf of lyrics on love, loss and faith follows, among them Up-Hill and A Birthday.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: Goblin Market
- 2: In the Round Tower at Jhansi
- 3: Dream Land
- 4: At Home
- 5: A Triad
- 6: Love from the North
- 7: Winter Rain
- 8: Cousin Kate
- 9: Noble Sisters
- 10: Spring
- 11: The Lambs of Grasmere, 1860
- 12: A Birthday
- 13: Remember
- 14: After Death
- 15: An End
- 16: My Dream
- 17: Song
- 18: Bride
- 19: Bridegroom
- 20: Ghost
- 21: Bride
- 22: Bridegroom
- 23: Ghost
- 24: Bride
- 25: Bridegroom
- 26: Ghost
- 27: A Summer Wish
- 28: An Apple Gathering
- 29: Song
- 30: Maude Clare
- 31: Echo
- 32: My Secret
- 33: Another Spring
- 34: A Peal of Bells
- 35: Fata Morgana
- 36: May
- 37: A Pause of Thought
- 38: Twilight Calm
- 39: Wife to Husband
- 40: Three Seasons
- 41: Mirage
- 42: Shut Out
- 43: Sound Sleep
- 44: Song
- 45: Song
- 46: Dead Before Death
- 47: Bitter for Sweet
- 48: Sister Maude
- 49: Rest
- 50: The First Spring Day
- 51: The Convent Threshold
- 52: Up-Hill
- 53: Devotional Pieces
- 54: A Better Resurrection
- 55: Advent
- 56: The Flesh
- 57: The World
- 58: The Devil
- 59: The One Certainty
- 60: A Dialogue
- 61: Sweet Death
- 62: Symbols
- 63: The World
- 64: A Testimony
- 65: Sleep at Sea
- 66: From House to Home
- 67: Old and New Year Ditties
- 68: Amen
- 69: The Prince's Progress
- 70: Maiden-Song
- 71: Jessie Cameron
- 72: Spring Quiet
- 73: The Poor Ghost
- 74: A Portrait
- 75: Dream-Love
- 76: Twice
- 77: Songs in a Cornfield
- 78: A Year's Windfalls
- 79: The Queen of Hearts
- 80: One Day
- 81: A Bird's-Eye View
- 82: Light Love
- 83: A Dream
- 84: A Ring Posy
- 85: Beauty Is Vain
- 86: Lady Maggie
- 87: What Would I Give?
- 88: The Bourne
- 89: Summer
- 90: Autumn
- 91: The Ghost's Petition
- 92: Memory
- 93: A Royal Princess
- 94: Shall I Forget?
- 95: Vanity of Vanities
- 96: L. E. L
- 97: Life and Death
- 98: Bird or Beast?
- 99: Eve
- 100: Grown and Flown
- 101: A Farm Walk
- 102: Somewhere or Other
- 103: A Chill
- 104: Child's Talk in April
- 105: Gone for Ever
- 106: Under the Rose
- 107: Despised and Rejected
- 108: Long Barren
- 109: If Only
- 110: Dost Thou Not Care?
- 111: Weary in Well-Doing
- 112: Martyrs' Song
- 113: After This the Judgement
- 114: Good Friday
- 115: The Lowest Place
- 116: Death's Chill Between
- 117: Heart's Chill Between
- 118: Repining
- 119: Sit Down in the Lowest Room
- 120: My Friend
- 121: Last Night
- 122: Consider
- 123: Helen Grey
- 124: B.c. 570
- 125: Seasons
- 126: Mother Country
- 127: A Smile and a Sigh
- 128: Dead Hope
- 129: Autumn Violets
- 130: The Offering of the New Law, the One Oblation Once Offered
- 131: Conference Between Christ, the Saints, and the Soul
- 132: Come Unto Me
- 133: Jesus, Do I Love Thee?
- 134: I Know You Not
- 135: Easter Even
- 136: Paradise: in a Dream
- 137: Within the Veil
- 138: Paradise: in a Symbol
- 139: Amor Mundi
- 140: Who Shall Deliver Me?
- 141: Twilight Night