A Birthday
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Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday” celebrates love’s joy, turning it into vibrant colors and textures—like a world made special just for this moment.
Today’s poem for June 13, 2026, is "A Birthday" by Christina Rossetti.\n\nMy heart is like a singing bird\nWhose nest is in a watered shoot;\nMy heart is like an apple-tree\nWhose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;\nMy heart is like a rainbow shell\nThat paddles in a halcyon sea;\nMy heart is gladder than all these\nBecause my love is come to me.\n\nRaise me a dais of silk and down;\nHang it with vair and purple dyes;\nCarve it in doves and pomegranates,\nAnd peacocks with a hundred eyes;\nWork it in gold and silver grapes,\nIn leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;\nBecause the birthday of my life\nIs come, my love is come to me.\n\nRossetti turns joy into color, texture, and song, as if love has made the whole world ceremonial.
