Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

Author:Christina Rossetti
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780486132006
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-07-18T04:00:00+00:00

Day after day, night after night,

Laura kept watch in vain

In sullen silence of exceeding pain.

She never caught again the goblin cry :

“ Come buy, come buy ” ;—

She never spied the goblin men

Hawking their fruits along the glen :

But when the moon waxed bright

Her hair grew thin and grey ;

She dwindled, as the fair full moon doth turn

To swift decay and burn

Her fire away.

One day remembering her kernel-stone

She set it by a wall that faced the south ;

Dewed it with tears, hoped for a root,

Watched for a waxing shoot,

But there came none ;

It never saw the sun,

It never felt the trickling moisture run :

While with sunk eyes and faded mouth

She dreamed of melons, as a traveller sees

False waves in desert drouth

With shade of leaf-crowned trees,

And burns the thirstier in the sandful breeze.

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