Goblin Market

Bearing luscious fruit, goblins try to seduce sisters Lizzie and Laura. Laura succumbs, but Lizzie resists, and in their anger the goblins squeeze the fruit onto her body. To rescue her sister, Lizzie sacrifices herself and the goblins' power is defeated.Goblin Market is widely regarded as Christina Rossetti's finest poem. It's a collection of a fairy-tale fantasies, fables of temptation and redemption.