Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins bellow:“approach buy our orchard fruits,approach buy, approach buy:Apples and quinces, or Lemons and oranges,Plump unpeck’d cherries,Melons and raspberries, or Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches,Swart-headed mulberries,Wild free-born cranberries, and Crab-apples,dewberries,Pine-apples, and blackberries,Apricots, strawberries;—All ripe togetherIn summer weather, and —Inspired by the nineteenth-century narrative poem Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti,which tells the story of two sisters enticed by the lush and abundant forbidden fruits of goblin merchants, Omar Rayyan’s sumptuously illustrated book features more than one hundred drawings and watercolor paintings that explore the poem’s pre-Raphaelite imagery and symbolism. See more samples from the book here.
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