 Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting; You cannot think what figs My teeth have met in, What melons icy-cold Piled on a dish of gold Too huge for me to hold, What peaches with a velvet nap, Pellucid grapes without one seed: Odorous indeed...  Poems - Page 7by Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1897 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1865 - 212 pages
...night I will Buy more : " and kissed her : " Have done with sorrow ; I'll bring you plums to-morrow Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting...indeed must be the mead Whereon they grow, and pure the waye they drink With lilies at the brink, And sugar-sweet their sap." Golden head by golden head, Like... | |
 | Maude Radford Warren - 1903 - 408 pages
...bosoms: and none spoke but when the Marquess addressed them. EDITH WHARTON: The Valley of Decision. You cannot think what figs My teeth have met in, What...With lilies at the brink, And sugar-sweet their sap. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: The Goblin Market. J " God save thee, ancient Mariner ! From the fiends, that plague... | |
 | 1910 - 356 pages
...night I will Buy more ; ' and kissed her. ' Have done with sorrow ; I '11 bring you plums to-morrow 170 Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting;...without one seed: Odorous indeed must be the mead 180 Whereon they grow, and pure the wave they drink With lilies at the brink, And sugar-sweet their... | |
 | Arthur Mee - 1910 - 656 pages
...will Buy more ; " and kissed her : " Have done with sorrow ; I'll bring you plums to-morrow Fresh OIL their mother twigs. Cherries worth getting ; You cannot...think what figs My teeth have met in, What melons icy -cold Piled on a dish of gold Too huge for me to hold ' What peaches with a velvet nap, Pellucid... | |
 | Edward H. Schafer - 1963 - 436 pages
...Hsiian (1) Tsung 712 Hsiian Tsung 860 I Tsung 756 Su Tsung 874 Hsi Tsung 763 Tai Tsung 889 Chao Tsung My teeth have met in, What melons icy-cold Piled on...with a velvet nap, Pellucid grapes without one seed . . . —Christina Rossetti, Goblin Mar\et Introduction THE CHARM of exotic goods is potent in our... | |
 | Carol Mavor - 1999 - 270 pages
...this."56 Hawarden gives and gives us objects "Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting . . . Piled on a dish of gold / Too huge for me to hold, What peaches with a velvet nap"" — but she keeps her purse shut tight. Though we can find photographs of Isabella with her Pandora-like... | |
 | Christina Rossetti - 2001 - 1284 pages
...Tomorrow night I will Buy more:" and kissed her: "Have done with sorrow; 170 I'll bring you plums tomorrow Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting; You cannot think what figs My teeth have met in, 175 What melons icy-cold Piled on a dish of gold Too huge for me to hold, What peaches with a velvet... | |
 | Christina Georgina Rossetti - 2002 - 172 pages
...To-morrow night I will Buy more;' and kissed her. 'Have done with sorrow; 111 bring you plums to-morrow Fresh on their mother twigs, Cherries worth getting;...think what figs My teeth have met in, What melons icy -cold Piled on a dish of gold Too huge for me to hold, What peaches with a velvet nap, Pellucid... | |
 | Robert Pattison - 2008 - 210 pages
...Laura, the fallen child of the poem, succumbs to the temptations offered "among the brookside rushes" : You cannot think what figs My teeth have met in, What...mead Whereon they grow, and pure the wave they drink. (173-181) Laura is not given the Miltonic choice between moderation and indulgence; she must choose... | |
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