A BIRTHDAY
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 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.
Raise me a dais 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.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti A CHRISTMAS CAROL Watercolor and gouache on paper. 1857–1858 Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University
Данте Габриэль Россетти РОЖДЕСТВЕНСКИЙ ГИМН Бумага, акварель, гуашь. 1857–1858 Художественный музей Фогга при Гарвардском университете