A Birthday By Christina Rossetti

Thursday, 2 January 2014

My heart is like a singing bird  
Whose nest is in a water'd shoot,

My heart is like an apple-tree..
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit...

My heart is like a rainbow shell..
That paddles in a halcyon sea...

My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.

  Raise me a daïs of silk and down..
Hang it with vair and purple dyes..

Carve it in doves and pomegranates.
And peacocks with a hundred eyes.
 
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys....

Because the birthday of my life,
Is come,my love is come to me.

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