An Apple Gathering

Christina Rossetti * Track #21 On The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

1906

An Apple Gathering by Christina Rossetti

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Christina Rossetti

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Composed in 1857 and published as part of the collection, Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862), “An Apple Gathering” was written shortly after Rossetti had broken up with her first love, James Collinson, whose flitting between Catholicism and Anglicanism left them with irreconcilable differences. Wh...

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

Plump Gertrude passed me with her basket full,
A stronger hand than hers helped it along;
A voice talked with her through the shadows cool
More sweet to me than song.

Ah, Willie, Willie, was my love less worth
Than apples with their green leaves piled above?
I counted rosiest apples on the earth
Of far less worth than love.

So once it was with me you stooped to talk
Laughing and listening in this very lane:
To think that by this way we used to walk
We shall not walk again!

I let my neighbors pass me, ones and twos
And groups; the latest said the night grew chill,
And hastened: but I loitered, while the dews
Fell fast I loitered still.

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