Holst and Rossetti

The words

1. Archangels

   The archangels who may have gathered there.

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2. Camel

   The ox, ass and camel that adore in the third stanza.

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3. Cranham

   Holst’s tune, named after a Gloucestershire village.

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4. Frosty Wind

   The frosty wind that made moan in the first stanza.

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5. George Grove

   The editor who turned the poem down.

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6. Goblin Market

   Rossetti’s best-known poem.

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7. Harold Darke

   Composer of a later choral setting of the poem.

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8. Holst

   Gustav Holst, composer of the tune Cranham.

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9. John Leighton

   Illustrator of the poem’s first printing.

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10. Macmillan's

    Macmillan’s Magazine, which rejected the poem in 1868.

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11. Midwinter

    The bleak mid-winter of the poem’s first line.

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12. Rossetti

    Christina Rossetti (1830–1894), author of the poem.

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13. Scribner's

    Scribner’s Monthly, which first printed the poem in January 1872.

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14. Seraphim

    The seraphim who thronged the air in the fourth stanza.

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15. Time Flies

    Rossetti’s 1885 reading diary, home of Love came down at Christmas.

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