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 thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea ; My heart is gladder than all these... A Dictionary of Similes - Page 197by Frank Jenners Wilstach - 1916 - 488 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1861 - 788 pages
...upon the English coast that we are wrecked, by the efforts that are made for onr rescue." A BIRTHDAY. MY heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a...sea ; My heart is gladder than all these, Because mv love has come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down, Hang it with vair and purple dyes, Carve... | |
| 1861 - 520 pages
...upon the English coast that we are wrecked, by the eiForte that are made for our rescue." Л BIRTHDAY. MY heart is like a singing bird "Whose nest is in...sea ; My heart is gladder than all these, Because mv love lias come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down, Hang it with vair and purple dyes, Carve... | |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1865 - 212 pages
...foreign strand. Yet not forget this flooded spring And scarce-saved lambs of Westmoreland. A BIRTHDAY. MY heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a...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,... | |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1865 - 212 pages
...foreign strand, Yet not forget this flooded spring And scarce-saved lambs of Westmoreland. A BIRTHDAY. MY heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a...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,... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1893 - 1008 pages
...leaves upon the nerves is almost pathetic : My heart is like a singing-bird Whose nest is in a w.itered 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... | |
| Harry Buxton Forman - 1871 - 536 pages
...whole sixteen lines are full of healthy happiness and the ringing melody of a joyful young heart : ' My heart is like a singing bird, Whose nest is in...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,... | |
| Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1874 - 312 pages
...sadness, all my gladness, Maiden, lost in thee. , George MacDonald. CLXXXIIL LOVES RETURN. A BIRTHDAY. MY heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a...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... | |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti - 1875 - 314 pages
...scarce-saved lambs of Westmoreland. A BIRTHDAY. "X/TY heart is like a singing bird 1" J. whose n est is in a watered shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree...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 dovesf and pomegranates,... | |
| Lyrics, William Davenport Adams - 1878 - 280 pages
...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 (hese, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a dais of silk and down ; Hang it with vair and purple... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1878 - 708 pages
...Man, are all in each. 623 CIIKISTIXA GABRIELLA KOSSETTI. A BmTHDAY. MY heart is like a singing-bird Whose nest is in a watered shoot ; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs arc bent with thickset fruit ; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea — My... | |
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