Two sisters hear the goblin merchants crying their fruits at dusk, and one of them tastes. Rossetti’s strange, musical narrative poem opens a volume that unites her collections of 1862 and 1866 with later poems, including A Birthday, Remember, Cousin Kate and the slow, doomed quest of The Prince’s Progress.
The heart of Rossetti’s achievement and some of the finest lyric poetry of the Victorian age. Download the free EPUB.