English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. A Birthday. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)

A Birthday

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. 

Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems:

1. A Testimony
2. Repining
3. Maiden May
4. Twice
5. The Convent Threshold

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Alfred Austin (Альфред Остин) A Birthday (“The love within my heart that dwells”)

Aleister Crowley (Алистер Кроули) A Birthday (“Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years”)

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