by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
Language: English
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 thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a purple sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
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Composition:
- Set to music by Ruth Byrchmore , "A birthday", stanza 1
Text Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "A birthday"
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 108