A Birthday
by Christina Rossetti (1862) — a poem card from Justes Mots
Pure, brimming joy that ransacks the whole world for images bright enough to hold it.
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 halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.…