The Birthday -- Christina Rossetti
The Birthday was recommended in an email to me by one of my friends. She said:i dont know if you've come across this one before - this such a lovely upbeat poem! if youre ever in love, it should feel like this! :-)
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A BIRTHDAY
by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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 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.
posted by Dileepan @ 10:40 AM
2 Comments:
that is a happy poem!! Makes you want to stop and dance where ever you stand!
Im studying this poem at school at the moment and we wrote our own versions of the poem. I enjoyed doing this because the poem inspired me to write things I wouldn't usually think of.
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