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A Birthday, my heart is like a singing bird

Author: Christina Rossetti Year: 1862 Length: 269 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

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My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an appletree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set 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.

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A Birthday was printed in Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862, Christina Rossetti's first published collection. Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti designed the illustrations and the binding for that book. She wrote the poem some years before it appeared and left no note about the occasion. Wikisource carries the 1862 edition.

About this text

A Birthday was printed in Goblin Market and Other Poems in 1862, Christina Rossetti's first published collection. Her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti designed the illustrations and the binding for that book. She wrote the poem some years before it appeared and left no note about the occasion. Wikisource carries the 1862 edition.

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Each line starts in almost the same way, so you can work on tempo while the semicolons train the little finger.

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