But Lizzie stood still she kept her mouth closed and only got the juice all over her face and neck “One may lead a horse to water, Twenty cannot make him drink” Eventually, goblins were tired of her resistance they threw her silver penny at her and kicked her out. They grabbed her and squeezed their fruits against her mouth to make her eat. After that goblins turned mean, they were not nice anymore they started calling her names and turned evil. Lizzie thanks them and says that she has to go home because someone waiting for her at home alone and she ask for silver her penny back.

She tries to buy the fruits “Give me much and many-Held out her apron, Tossed them her penny” But Goblins tell her to sit down, to honor and eat with them. So Lizzie puts a silver penny in her purse and goes to the market to meet the goblin men. Her sister Lizzie began to worry about her because her friend Jenny died after eating the same fruit. Soon after Laura started feeling differently, she wasn’t herself anymore, she was slowly dying. Laura clips a precious golden lock and eats the tasty fruit and goes home. But the goblin men say that she can pay for the fruit with a piece of her golden curl. Laura wants to take delicious fruit but tells the goblin men that she doesn’t have the money. Lizzie tells her not to but Laura doesn’t listen to her, so she goes to the market and goblin men offer her fruit.

At the beginning they try to ignore tempting calls of the goblin men, but later on Laura gives in and goes to the market to see what is going on. They hear the sounds of the goblin fruit market from their house. “Goblin Market” is a poem written by Christina Rossetti and it was published in 1862. The poem is about two sister Laura and Lizzie.

Goblin market by christina rossetti