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Poets in the Graveyard
Goblin Market 
by Christina Rossetti
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
“Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheeked peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries;—
All ripe together
In summer weather,—
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy;…
Read the rest of this Christina Rosetti poem and others at the American Academy of Poets Poets in the Graveyard.
You can also visit the graves of poets.
Thanks to Valerie Loveland for the tip.
And Happy Halloween
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1 Comment
1. MW replies at 1st November 2006, 2:54 am :
A very good choice for Halloween. I’ve always wished I could write poetry like this. This is one of the very few poems I still remember from my literature classes at college, at least of the ones I didn’t already know. The rest of her stuff is pretty good, too, though maybe a little more typical of the poetry of her time. At least it seemed that way to me.
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