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A Birthday. By Christina 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.
The poem, ‘A Birthday‘, with its sixteen lines of distilled beauty, is one of Christian Rossetti’s most popular poems and one of the most frequently quoted and anthologized of all her works. It is an unusual poem in Rossetti’s production as it expresses pure, undarkened joy.
Christina Rossetti's "A Birthday" celebrates the passionate joy of love. The "birthday" of the title is a figurative one: now that the speaker's "love" has arrived, they feel like their life has officially begun.
A Birthday. Christina Rossetti. 1830 –. 1894. 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 thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell.
A Birthday. Christina Rossetti. Track 13 on The Poems of Christina G. Rossetti. Christina Rossetti was known to have had a difficult life, as her biography indicates. But she found...
Nov 29, 2016 · ‘My heart is like a singing bird’: ‘A Birthday’ is one of the most widely anthologised poems by the Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (1830-94). It is also, perhaps, one of the greatest birthday poems in the English language .
The short poem “A Birthday” by Christina Rossetti diverges in tone from many of her other works. The feminist literary critics Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar describe Rossetti’s style as an “aesthetic of renunciation.”
