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A BIRTHDAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a singing bird Last Line: Is come, my love is come to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birthdays; Happiness; Love; Love - Marital; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love | ||||||||
MY heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset 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 dais 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. | Other Poems of Interest...TO MY WIFE by GEORGE WASHINGTON BETHUNE VARIATION ON THE WORD SLEEP by MARGARET ATWOOD IN THE MONTH OF MAY by ROBERT BLY |
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