Christina Rossetti Goblin Market Quotes

• “Morning and evening

  Maids heard the goblins cry:

  “Come buy our orchard fruits,

  Come buy, come buy:” Symbolism of different kinds of desires and Temptations
• “With tingling cheeks and finger tips…We must not look at goblin men,

  We must not buy their fruits:” Laura
• “Good folk, I have no coin…She clipped a precious golden lock” Laura 
• “Found them no more but dwindled and grew grey;

  Then fell with the first snow” Lizzie
• “Twitched her hair out by the roots…Held her hands and squeezed their fruits

  Against her mouth to make her eat.” 
• “Twitched her hair out by the roots…Held her hands and squeezed their fruits

  Against her mouth to make her eat.” Redemption And Salvation Familial Love
• “Eat me, drink me, love me” Lizzie (Paraphrase of Christ’s words to his disciples at the Last Supper.)
• “For there is no friend like a sister

  In calm or stormy weather” Laura (Salvation and Redemption) Shows how fallen women can indeed be saved from moral sins.