A Birthday

Christina Rossetti

1830 to 1894

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