Ghost Lady Goblin Market brass necklace - Elysia

Description

Inspired by the Christina Rossetti poem "Goblin Market."

Lizzie met her at the gate
Full of wise upbraidings:
"Dear, you should not stay so late,
Twilight is not good for maidens;
Should not loiter in the glen
In the haunts of goblin men.
Do you not remember Jeanie,
How she met them in the moonlight,
Took their gifts both choice and many,
Ate their fruits and wore their flowers
Plucked from bowers
Where summer ripens at all hours?
But ever in the moonlight
She pined and pined away;
Sought them by night and day,
Found them no more, but dwindled and grew gray;
Then fell with the first snow,
While to this day no grass will grow
Where she lies low:
I planted daisies there a year ago
That never blow.
You should not loiter so."
"Nay hush," said Laura.
"Nay hush, my sister:
I ate and ate my fill,
Yet my mouth waters still;
To-morrow night I will
Buy more," and kissed her.

Laura wanders still, a ghostly image of herself thin and gray, thirsty and hungry for goblin fruit that will never pass her way again.

The "Goblin Market" necklace hangs on a 21" chain. The vintage mirrored glass cabochon is 40x30cm, and while it does have some nicks on the edges as a result of being old, that adds to the character and look of the piece. The larger the pendant, the longer I tend to make the chains so that they rest between the breasts or just below. If you would rather have them shorter, I can shorten them for an additional $1.

Added on Oct 16, 2009

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