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dianalogbooks on Instagram: "#SealeyChallenge 13/31 Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti🍍🍇🍑A poet haunted by spring: she sees the ends in every …" #SealeyChallenge 13/31 Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti🍍🍇🍑A poet haunted by spring: she sees the ends in every new/fresh thing (& in everything), yet depicts bounty in splendiferous detail. My favorite images from the title poem were the sisters described bodily/mentally as “leaping flames” or a “beacon… sending up golden fire” like a blazing lighthouse🕯️🙏🏻sponsor me (under name: dianalogbooks) or donate direct to #FeedGaza — links in bio or via @openpoetrybooks #TheSealeyChallenge2025#TheSealeyChallenge #31BooksIn31Days #31BooksInAugust #poetry {Image 1 description}[book sits on wood]Cover art is “White and golden Lizzie stood,” by Arthur Rackham, 1933, an illustration of a scene from “Goblin Market” — Lizzie, seeking to save her sister Laura, is seen standing in a white dress by a stream under dark trees, resisting temptations by the goblins. A crowd of them are trying to force fruit upon her. Some are rat-faced, 1 is cat-faced, 1 is a parrot! [gold text in a brown horizontal band across the top:]DOVER •THRIFT •EDITIONS[in white lettering with black halo:]CHRISTINA ROSSETTI[in large yellow lettering:]GOBLIN MARKET[slightly smaller:]AND OTHER POEMS{Image 2 description}[Rossetti’s “Song” from p33 shown:]Song/When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. /I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on, as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply may forget. https://www.instagram.com/p/DNZcVnUpF4I/?img_index=1&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==