Goblin Market and Other Poems

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1. 01Full text
2. 02CLXXXIV
3. 03MY MOTHER
4. 04I inscribe this book
5. 05GOBLIN MARKET, AND OTHER POEMS, 1862
6. 06GOBLIN MARKET
7. 07I have no copper in my purse,
8. 08I have no silver either,
9. 09I planted daisies there a year ago 160
10. 10I ate and ate my fill,
11. 11I tossed you for a fee.'--
12. 12IN THE ROUND TOWER AT JHANSI
13. 13DREAM LAND
14. 14AT HOME
15. 15I listened to their honest chat:
16. 16I was of yesterday.
17. 17I shivered comfortless, but cast
18. 18I passed from the familiar room,
19. 19I who from love had passed away, 30
20. 20A TRIAD
21. 21LOVE FROM THE NORTH
22. 22I had a love in soft south land,
23. 23I pacing balanced in my thoughts:
24. 24WINTER RAIN
25. 25COUSIN KATE
26. 26I was a cottage maiden
27. 27I would have spit into his face
28. 28NOBLE SISTERS
29. 29I 'frayed the thief away.'--
30. 30I rose and drove him from your wall
31. 31I packed him home to bed.'--
32. 32I said: Her husband loves her much.
33. 33I have none other love but him,
34. 34I will go seek him thro' the world
35. 35SPRING
36. 36THE LAMBS OF GRASMERE, 1860
37. 37A BIRTHDAY
38. 38REMEMBER
39. 39AFTER DEATH
40. 40AN END
41. 41MY DREAM
42. 42I stood beside Euphrates while it swelled
43. 43SONG
44. 44THE HOUR AND THE GHOST
45. 45BRIDE
46. 46I cannot stem the blast,
47. 47BRIDEGROOM
48. 48I have thee close, my dear,
49. 49GHOST
50. 50BRIDE
51. 51BRIDEGROOM
52. 52GHOST
53. 53I will guide and steady:
54. 54BRIDE
55. 55BRIDEGROOM
56. 56GHOST
57. 57I knew of old;
58. 58A SUMMER WISH
59. 59I fancy thou wast meant
60. 60I so might rest once more
61. 61AN APPLE GATHERING
62. 62I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple-tree
63. 63I found no apples there.
64. 64I counted rosiest apples on the earth
65. 65SONG
66. 66MAUDE CLARE
67. 67I have a gift for you;
68. 68I wash my hands thereof.' 40
69. 69ECHO
70. 70MY SECRET
71. 71I tell my secret? No indeed, not I:
72. 72I cannot ope to every one who taps,
73. 73I wear my mask for warmth: who ever shows
74. 74ANOTHER SPRING
75. 75I would not wait for anything:
76. 76A PEAL OF BELLS
77. 77FATA MORGANA
78. 78I pant and run.
79. 79I laugh, it is so brisk and gay;
80. 80I hope I shall lie down some day,
81. 81'NO, THANK YOU, JOHN'
82. 82I never said I loved you, John:
83. 83I dare say Meg or Moll would take
84. 84MAY
85. 85I cannot tell you how it was;
86. 86I cannot tell you what it was;
87. 87A PAUSE OF THOUGHT
88. 88I watched and waited still.
89. 89TWILIGHT CALM
90. 90WIFE TO HUSBAND
91. 91I must drift across the sea,
92. 92I must sink into the snow,
93. 93I must die.
94. 94I must die.
95. 95I must die.
96. 96I must die.
97. 97I must die. 30
98. 98THREE SEASONS
99. 99MIRAGE
100. 100I hang my harp upon a tree,
101. 101SHUT OUT
102. 102I peering through said: 'Let me have
103. 103SOUND SLEEP
104. 104SONG
105. 105I sat and wept alway
106. 106I wept for memory;
107. 107SONG
108. 108I shall not see the shadows,
109. 109I shall not hear the nightingale
110. 110DEAD BEFORE DEATH
111. 111BITTER FOR SWEET
112. 112SISTER MAUDE
113. 113REST
114. 114THE FIRST SPRING DAY
115. 115THE CONVENT THRESHOLD
116. 116I seek the sea of glass and fire
117. 117I see the far-off city grand,
118. 118I turn from you my cheeks and eyes,
119. 119I heard his hundred pinions clang,
120. 120I saw him, drunk with knowledge, take 100
121. 121I tell you what I dreamed last night: 110
122. 122I woke and prayed against my will,
123. 123UP-HILL
124. 124DEVOTIONAL PIECES
125. 125'THE LOVE OF CHRIST WHICH PASSETH KNOWLEDGE'
126. 126'A BRUISED REED SHALL HE NOT BREAK'
127. 127I guide them turning towards Me; I control
128. 128I cannot wish, alas!
129. 129I do not deprecate.
130. 130A BETTER RESURRECTION
131. 131I have no wit, no words, no tears;
132. 132I lift mine eyes, but dimmed with grief
133. 133ADVENT
134. 134THE THREE ENEMIES
135. 135THE FLESH
136. 136THE WORLD
137. 137THE DEVIL
138. 138THE ONE CERTAINTY
139. 139CHRISTIAN AND JEW
140. 140A DIALOGUE
141. 141I look in vain above,
142. 142SWEET DEATH
143. 143I saw how on the graves the flowers
144. 144SYMBOLS
145. 145I watched a rosebud very long
146. 146I watched a nest from day to day,
147. 147I crushed the eggs, not heeding how
148. 148I would have vengeance now.
149. 149'CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD'
150. 150I am most fair;
151. 151THE WORLD
152. 152A TESTIMONY
153. 153I said of laughter: it is vain.
154. 154SLEEP AT SEA
155. 155FROM HOUSE TO HOME
156. 156I never marred the curious sudden stool
157. 157I shed no tear, I wrung no passionate hand, 90
158. 158I saw a vision of a woman, where
159. 159OLD AND NEW YEAR DITTIES
160. 160I know not if they watch with me: I know 10
161. 161AMEN
162. 162THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS, AND OTHER POEMS, 1866
163. 163THE PRINCE'S PROGRESS
164. 164I will give you life if you crave.
165. 165MAIDEN-SONG
166. 166I will be lady of his love,
167. 167I will be lady of his herds
168. 168I shine but like a moon;
169. 169I can make mine as soon;
170. 170JESSIE CAMERON
171. 171I tell you so to-day:
172. 172SPRING QUIET
173. 173I would go to a covert
174. 174THE POOR GHOST
175. 175I was away, far enough away:
176. 176A PORTRAIT
177. 177I
178. 178II
179. 179DREAM-LOVE
180. 180TWICE
181. 181I took my heart in my hand
182. 182I said: Let me fall or stand,
183. 183I smiled at the speech you spoke,
184. 184I take my heart in my hand,
185. 185I take my heart in my hand--
186. 186I shall not die, but live--
187. 187SONGS IN A CORNFIELD
188. 188A YEAR'S WINDFALLS
189. 189THE QUEEN OF HEARTS
190. 190I cheated once; I made a private notch
191. 191ONE DAY
192. 192I will tell you when they met:
193. 193I will tell you when they parted:
194. 194A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW
195. 195LIGHT LOVE
196. 196I watch her tremble in my reach;
197. 197A DREAM
198. 198A RING POSY
199. 199I don't need a veil:
200. 200BEAUTY IS VAIN
201. 201LADY MAGGIE
202. 202I know I missed a ringlet from my hair
203. 203WHAT WOULD I GIVE?
204. 204THE BOURNE
205. 205SUMMER
206. 206AUTUMN
207. 207I will not mar the web,
208. 208I have no bower,
209. 209THE GHOST'S PETITION
210. 210I cannot hold you, kind wife, nor fold you
211. 211MEMORY
212. 212I
213. 213II
214. 214I have a room whereinto no one enters
215. 215I watch there with clear eyes,
216. 216A ROYAL PRINCESS
217. 217I sat beside them sole princess in my exalted place, 40
218. 218SHALL I FORGET?
219. 219I promise nothing: follow, friend, and see
220. 220VANITY OF VANITIES
221. 221L. E. L.
222. 222I plume myself like any mated dove:
223. 223LIFE AND DEATH
224. 224BIRD OR BEAST?
225. 225I think not Eve's peacock
226. 226I think not a lion,
227. 227EVE
228. 228I chose the tree of death.
229. 229I might have pined away; 20
230. 230GROWN AND FLOWN
231. 231I loved my love on sunny days
232. 232I loved my love--alas to see
233. 233A FARM WALK
234. 234I met a maid with shining locks
235. 235I stood a minute out of sight,
236. 236I have not yet forgotten. 40
237. 237SOMEWHERE OR OTHER
238. 238A CHILL
239. 239CHILD'S TALK IN APRIL
240. 240I wish you were a pleasant wren,
241. 241GONE FOR EVER
242. 242UNDER THE ROSE
243. 243I do not guess his name
244. 244I know her from all other.
245. 245I know this not the less.
246. 246I never cared to play
247. 247I found so little to say
248. 248I pray both night and day
249. 249I was a little maid
250. 250I don't know where it was,
251. 251I liked my old home best,
252. 252I often sat to wonder
253. 253I slipped it on my finger;
254. 254I was down upon the floor,
255. 255I heard the sexton's wife
256. 256I guess my Lady's purse
257. 257I was sick at heart that day: 190
258. 258I will see her first alone,
259. 259I think she must have heard
260. 260I seemed to have no power
261. 261I turned and stared at her:
262. 262I think they must have had
263. 263I went to pluck them in the lane;
264. 264I was going to the Hall
265. 265I sit with her all day
266. 266I hate when people come:
267. 267I like the proud ones best
268. 268I sometimes do contrive
269. 269I recollect she smiled,
270. 270I guess not who he was
271. 271I will not press my claim,
272. 272I hold the tangled clue
273. 273I wait the happy man;
274. 274I love my dear old Nurse
275. 275I love my mistress even,
276. 276I almost curse him still:
277. 277I think my mind is fixed
278. 278I go to the dark land.
279. 279I bide my time till then:
280. 280DEVOTIONAL PIECES
281. 281DESPISED AND REJECTED
282. 282I will make fast my door
283. 283I will not open, trouble me no more. 20
284. 284I will not rise and open unto thee.
285. 285I saw upon the grass
286. 286LONG BARREN
287. 287IF ONLY
288. 288DOST THOU NOT CARE?
289. 289I will accept thy broken heart, lie still._
290. 290I fresh, I cheerful: worn with pain
291. 291I will accept thy fainting heart, be strong._
292. 292WEARY IN WELL-DOING
293. 293I go, Lord, where Thou sendest me;
294. 294MARTYRS' SONG
295. 295AFTER THIS THE JUDGEMENT
296. 296GOOD FRIDAY
297. 297THE LOWEST PLACE
298. 298MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, 1848-69
299. 299DEATH'S CHILL BETWEEN
300. 300I would wake a little space
301. 301I will make no useless moan,--
302. 302I will shelter thee from harm,--
303. 303I will lull thee to thy sleep
304. 304HEART'S CHILL BETWEEN
305. 305I did not chide him, though I knew
306. 306I hardly heed it now;
307. 307REPINING
308. 308SIT DOWN IN THE LOWEST ROOM
309. 309I dwindled paler, whilst my hair
310. 310I also, what am I?'
311. 311I cannot fire and tempest-toss:--
312. 312I rather from my heart would feed
313. 313I elder sister by six years;
314. 314I chose a book to read and dream:
315. 315I watched her, till my book unmarked
316. 316I knew whose step was on the walk,
317. 317I sit and watch my sister's face:
318. 318I lift mine eyes up to the hills
319. 319MY FRIEND
320. 320LAST NIGHT
321. 321CONSIDER
322. 322HELEN GREY
323. 323BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON
324. 324SEASONS
325. 325MOTHER COUNTRY
326. 326I see their soft plumage
327. 327I mark the outskirts
328. 328A SMILE AND A SIGH
329. 329DEAD HOPE
330. 330AUTUMN VIOLETS
331. 331'THEY DESIRE A BETTER COUNTRY'
332. 332I
333. 333I would not if I could: for much more dear
334. 334II
335. 335III
336. 336I stayed my broken heart on pride:
337. 337I am pale with sick desire,
338. 338I have spent yet nothing bought,
339. 339I cannot rise above,
340. 340I cannot rest beneath,
341. 341I cannot find out Love,
342. 342COME UNTO ME
343. 343JESUS, DO I LOVE THEE?
344. 344I show as a blot
345. 345I KNOW YOU NOT
346. 346I see the wounded hands and side,
347. 347'BEFORE THE PALING OF THE STARS'
348. 348EASTER EVEN
349. 349PARADISE: IN A DREAM
350. 350I heard the songs of Paradise:
351. 351I saw the fourfold River flow,
352. 352I saw the gate called Beautiful;
353. 353I saw the golden streets begin,
354. 354I hope to see these things again,
355. 355WITHIN THE VEIL
356. 356PARADISE: IN A SYMBOL
357. 357AMOR MUNDI
358. 358WHO SHALL DELIVER ME?
359. 359I lock my door and bar them out
360. 360I lock my door upon myself,
361. 361I have a sister, I have a brother,
362. 362TWILIGHT NIGHT
363. 363I
364. 364II
365. 365I watch with wistful eye,
366. 366I wait and wonder:
367. 367I watched so yesterday