Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems
Christina Rossetti, 1862
Poems of goblin fruit, ghostly visitors and stubborn refusals, by a Victorian who made longing sound like a nursery rhyme.
Christina Rossetti
1830–1894
Rossetti broke off her engagement to the painter James Collinson when he became a Roman Catholic, and later declined Charles Bagot Cayley, whom she loved.
Feels like longing, love and melancholy.
The heaviest thing you will ever have to carry is yourself.
God strengthen me to bear myself;That heaviest weight of all to bear,Inalienable weight of care.All others are outside myself,I lock my door and bar them outThe turmoil, tedium, gad-about.I lock my door upon myself,And bar them out; but who shall wallSelf from myself, most loathed of all?If I could once lay down myself,And start self-purged upon the raceThat all must run! Death runs apace. Books by Christina Rossetti
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