back to my same-september objects for Tuesdays in September
The same object was meant to be the dolls on the pin, but it could also be the apple tree which popped up in the collage of same settings last Wednesday
Christina Georgina Rossetti. 1830–1894
780. A Birthday
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 5
That paddles in a halcyon sea;
My heart is gladder than all these,
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a daïs of silk and down;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes; 10
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life 15
Is come, my love is come to me.
