A Birthday
- Christina Rossetti
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 thickest fruit:
My Heart is like a rainbow shell
That Paddles in a halcyon sea:
My Heart is gladder than all these
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me...
- Christina Rossetti
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 thickest fruit:
My Heart is like a rainbow shell
That Paddles in a halcyon sea:
My Heart is gladder than all these
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me...