Christina Rossetti

Dec 5, 1830 - Dec 29, 1894

 

An Apple Gathering

by Christina Rossetti

I plucked pink blossoms from mine apple tree
And wore them all that evening in my hair:
Then in due season when I went to see
I found no apples there.

With dangling basket all along the grass
As I had come I went the selfsame track:
My neighbours mocked me while they saw me pass
So empty-handed back.
Lilian and Lilias smiled in trudging by,

Their heaped-up basket teazed me like a jeer;
Sweet-voiced they sang beneath the sunset sky,
Their mother's home was near.

Source:

Goblin Market and Other Poems
Copyright 1865
Macmillan And Co.London and Cambridge