A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
1830 to 1894
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My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest in a water'd shoot;
My heart is like an apple-tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my is come to me.
Raise me a dais of and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
come, my love is come to me.