One of her poetry collections is named for a poem beginning "Till all sweet gums and juices flow /
This author wrote about a person who "saw upon the grass / Each footprint marked in blood, and on my door / The mark of blood for evermore" in "Despised and Rejected," one of her Devotional Pieces. Her short stories include "The Lost Titan" and "Maude: A Story for Girls," and Skene "closes the pistol to the brow" of his "pale young wife" in her poem set during the Sepoy Mutiny, "In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857." One of her poetry collections is named for a poem beginning "Till all sweet gums and juices flow / Till the blossom of blossoms blow / The long hours go and come and go," "The Prince's Progress." Gustav Holst set her Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter" to music, and in another of her poems, sinister merchants cry "Come buy, come buy" to Laura and Lizzie. The sister of a Pre-Raphaelite painter, for 10 points, name this English poet of "Goblin Market."
This author wrote about a person who "saw upon the grass / Each footprint marked in blood, and on my door / The mark of blood for evermore" in "Despised and Rejected," one of her Devotional Pieces.
{Christina Rossetti}