1. A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti

2. My heart is like a singing bird

3. Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;

4. Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

5. My heart is like a rainbow shell

6. That paddles in a halcyon sea;

7. My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.

8. Raise me a dais of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes;

9. Carve it in doves

10. and pomegranates,

11. And peacocks with a hundred eyes;

12. Work it in gold and silver grapes,

13. In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;

14. Because the birthday of my life

15. Is come, my love is come to me.