First and foremost I must apologise for my absence - I have recently started university and have had a lot of work to do, which came as a real shock I can tell you. This group has my full attention now and will continue to for as long as I can function.

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http://www.poetry-archive.com/r/a_birthday.html - A Birthday - Christina Georgina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti was born in London, England, in December 1830 and died in London in December 1894. Although she was of Italian descent, Rossetti never lived outside Great Britain because her father had moved to London where he was a professor of Italian at King’s College. Rossetti’s mother was also a teacher, and she schooled her own children at home. All four Rossetti children were artistically inclined—the two sons, William Michael and Dante Gabriel, were poets and painters; the older daughter, Maria, was a writer; and the youngest, Christina, became one of Victorian England’s most prominent poets of both adult and children’s verse.

The reason i picked out this one however, is because Christina Rossetti is my mother's favorite poet and my mother having a favorite poet meant that she was the one who supported my choice to become a writer, i thank her for that...

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/-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
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;
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
Is come, my love is come to me.

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