greykit.poetry — #desire

• 1862 [christina-rossetti] Goblin Market
  Goblin Market and Other Poems

  Laura succumbs to the goblin merchants' enchanted fruit and wastes away; her sister Lizzie braves the goblins to win the antidote and save her — a narrative poem of temptation, sacrifice, and the redemptive bond between sisters.

  #narrative#desire#temptation#sisterhood#1860s
• 1609 [william-shakespeare] Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
  Shakespeare’s Sonnets

  Lust anatomised across all three tenses at once — hunted past reason, hated past reason the moment it is had, a bliss in proof and a very woe once proved — and the world knows this perfectly well, and shuns nothing.

  #sonnet#desire#shame#1600s