DLTK's Poems
A Birthday
My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in
a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are
bent with thickest 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 fleur-de-lys;
Because the
birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
