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Buy from Us with a Golden Curl, wood engraving by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1862).
0 comentarios Publicado por María Belén en 11:29 pmBuy from Us with a Golden Curl is an illustration for Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market (composed in April 1859 and published in 1862). When the poem appeared in her first volume of poetry, Goblin Market and Other Poems, it was illustrated by her brother, the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Here's the illustration and below it there´s an extract from the poem describing the very moment when Laura buys from the goblins with a golden curl.
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow
"Good folk, I have no coin;
To take were to purloin:
I have no copper in my purse,
I have no silver either,
And all my gold is on the furze
That shakes in windy weather
Above the rusty heather."
"Youhave much gold upon your head,"
They answered all together:
"Buy from us with a golden curl."
She clipped a precious golden lock,
She dropped a tear more rare than pearl,
Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red:
Sweeter than honey from the rock.
Stronger than man-rejoicing wine,
Clearer than water flowed that juice;
She never tasted such before,
How should it cloy with length of use?
She sucked and sucked and sucked the more
Fruits which that unknown orchard bore;
She sucked until her lips were sore;
Then flung the emptied rinds away
But gathered up one kernal-stone,
And knew not was it night or day
As she turned home alone...
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